Elihu Thomson Quotes
If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so that when the whole population grew up there would be a far more general background of common sense, based on a knowledge of the real meaning of the scientific method of discovering truth.
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I think everyone who goes to see a 'Bond' movie expects to be impressed by the look and the locations chosen. Certainly I was when I grew up watching them, and I don't think that's changed in the last 50 years.
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I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.
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As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.
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In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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One day, I want to make a PG film.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
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There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.
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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
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The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.
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Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage.
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A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?
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Writing is an addiction more powerful than alcohol, than nicotine, than crack. I could not conceive of not writing.
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Sometimes the knowledge you've been given in school or by an elder - 'this is just the way it is' - keeps you from accomplishing because it traps you in a box in your mind and limits your freedom to deliver.
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Poetry's object is truth.
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As Carl Sagan put it, “Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at the last minute before the gospel reading, take Communion, and walk right out again.
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If the question were, "What ought to be the next objective in science?" my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so that when the whole population grew up there would be a far more general background of common sense, based on a knowledge of the real meaning of the scientific method of discovering truth.
