William Deresiewicz Quotes
Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn’t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus, to roam freely across the academic fields, making serendipitous connections and discoveries, the way that American higher education was designed (uniquely, among the world’s systems) to allow you to do.William Deresiewicz
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You cannot exploit the advantages of getting above the atmosphere unless you are able to get up there reasonably large-sized telescopes and unless you are able to keep these telescopes pointing at one region of the sky for long periods of time to a high degree of accuracy.
Nancy Roman -
I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
Karl Rove -
The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
Ike Skelton -
I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
Hanya Yanagihara -
I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
Mahershala Ali -
When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.
Sally Mann
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
Dan Farmer -
That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
If ballots won't work, bullets will.
Malcolm X -
The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.
Paloma Faith -
Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
Harmon Killebrew
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'Republican Party, you're a lie factory, that's all you do.
Alan Grayson -
It is a noteworthy fact that not one of the women to whom I have spoken so far believes in abortion as a practice; but it is principle for which they are standing. They also believe that the complete abolition of the abortion law will shortly do away with abortions, as nothing else will.
Margaret Sanger -
La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
Antonio Porchia -
I wanted to be a writer and an artist. Learning to type as quickly as I could think was a needed skill and part of my long self-directed apprenticeship.
Jeffrey Zeldman -
When Marvin Gaye made his music, he evoked this feeling that would reach everybody.
Charlie Puth -
The platform got me out of a very dark period of my life, so I love YouTube genuinely.
Lilly Singh
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Education is preparation to live completely.
Herbert Spencer -
I wouldn't just lay my voice on anything. But I'd love to do a collaboration, like a Calvin Harris track, for example.
Gabrielle Aplin -
Yoga, unlike dance or mime,
Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar -
People think: 'If this photographer's looking like a big jerk-off, maybe it's okay if I do.' I like to catch my subjects off balance a bit.
Mick Rock -
Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn’t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus, to roam freely across the academic fields, making serendipitous connections and discoveries, the way that American higher education was designed (uniquely, among the world’s systems) to allow you to do.
William Deresiewicz