Jack Nicklaus Quotes
Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
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My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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Sometimes compromise is painful.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.
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In the most important sense a creationist is a person who believes in creation, and that includes people who believe that Genesis is a myth and that creation involved a process called evolution and consumed billions of years.
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I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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Everyone wants to be sexy.
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Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
