George Placzek Quotes
I am an experimenter, or rather I used to be one. Then I stopped working, and since then people think I am a theoretician.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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It's no secret that I'm called to a different place, maybe, for some of the beliefs in the LGBTQ community because of my faith. With that said, I'm also called to be accepting and compassionate.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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I choose to express myself.
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
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Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.
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I think the reason Buddhism and Western psychology are so compatible is that Western psychology helps to identify the stories and the patterns in our personal lives, but what Buddhist awareness training does is it actually allows the person to develop skills to stay in what's going on.
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It's a rare thing when you read a role and have this immediate ownership over it, you have this take and this connection, and it's not even that you feel that you're gonna do a good job, it's that you feel like you've found it. It fits, it's natural; it's like putting on a good shoe or something.
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My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.
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I would have liked to personally have prosecuted Scott Peterson.
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We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.
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I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.
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A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
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Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.
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Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.
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Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting.
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I am an experimenter, or rather I used to be one. Then I stopped working, and since then people think I am a theoretician.
