George Smoot Quotes
I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.
Quotes to Explore
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I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.
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I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.
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The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
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One of the things is, in the writing process, if you do it enough, you have a sense of where you are. I didn't have that with the first book as I was writing it. Now, as I write books, I have a sense of where I am. Unfortunately, the sense of where I am is usually behind.
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People will tell you that you can't do it, no matter what you are trying to do, so you just have to really keep at it.
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My fans can see me grow up.
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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
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Fred Stuckey, 'Eric Clapton Interview,' Guitar Player 4 (June 1970) p. 47. guitarplayer.com
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Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't know, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had a long road back to the campus before me.
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I've certainly been someone who has loved to mine the trials and tribulations of growing up in general, and the people who are in our lives, and I don't mind pulling from them and writing things down on my phone that my family says.
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When it was first proposed, I was willing to support it as a 'transitional fuel' because it had some clear advantages for Hawaii. Much has changed since then. LNG will no longer save us any money.
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I don't like beating people on the head with the message. I don't like standing on the soapbox.
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People bursting into song in unison and then pointing it at me is maybe the worst thing I can think of, never mind that you have to pay good money to go be yelled/danced at.
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I love Kabuki, Noh theater and bunraku.
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I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place.
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I don't like ephemeral things; I like things that last forever
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I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.
