Ernest Moniz Quotes
We have to understand the ubiquity of energy in everything we do. Energy is core to our economy and it brings with it environmental challenges, and it's core to our security challenges.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
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I don't know anything about music.
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They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
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My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
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What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
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Marriage is an exercise in torture.
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Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.
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I never had to look for confidence because I just wore what I wanted to wear. I would never wear anything to offend my husband or my mother, but outside of that, I always figured, I hope I'm not a rebel, and I hope everybody liked it. And if they didn't like it, it really was not going to disturb me because it was their problem, not mine.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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Strange, is it not, my brothers, how often in America those great watchwords of human energy - 'Be strong!' 'Know thyself!' 'Hitch your wagon to a star!' - how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? And yet do they not belong to them? Are they not their heritage as well as yours?
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It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
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It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.
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We have to understand the ubiquity of energy in everything we do. Energy is core to our economy and it brings with it environmental challenges, and it's core to our security challenges.
