Karl Taylor Compton Quotes
The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.
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Growing up, I thought I was going to be Madonna. I wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to dance and sing.
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I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
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You don't know where life takes you.
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Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name.
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I fit into the quirky, character class type of actor.
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Everyone thinks of the roaring twenties and associates it with decadence and flappers, female sexual liberation, the freedom of women to express themselves, the beginning of feminism. But it was also a time of huge, huge change.
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Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.
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You can't win if you're chasing the wrong problem.
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I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.
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Am I sounding better or am I just getting used to my voice?
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My job gives me the attention I'd otherwise crave.
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As I have often said, acceptance of the idea of shared mobility is going to be one of the major disruptive trends in the automotive industry.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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We see Google experimenting in so many places outside of its core search and advertising business, whether that's bringing broadband Internet to the world or funding an entirely separate company to pursue solutions to disease and mortality. Amazon's one of the few other companies that thinks as big as Google does.
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Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.
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I never, never photograph someone getting high to sell clothes. I was called, at some point, the person responsible for "heroin chic". I didn't have anything to do with "heroin chic".
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The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world
