George Smoot Quotes
The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.George Smoot
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
Fran Lebowitz -
I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
Hakeem Olajuwon -
The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
C. Z. Guest -
Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
Ralph Marston -
Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.
Carlos Beruff -
I've always thought of myself as an 80 percenter. I like to throw myself passionately into a sport or activity until I reach about an 80 percent proficiency level. To go beyond that requires an obsession that doesn't appeal to me. Once I reach 80 percent level I like to go off and do something totally different; that probably explains the diversity of the Patagonia product like - and why our versatile, multifaceted clothes are the most successful.
Yvon Chouinard
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve with Positive Mental Attitude. It is a form of self-suggestion. It is a self-motivator to success. When it becomes a part of you, you dare to aim higher.
W. Clement Stone -
Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.
Lou Holtz -
There is always one person in the office that you want to whip their ass! If you don't know who it is, it is probably you.
D. L. Hughley -
I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.
Barack Obama -
I've said consistently that I always reserve the right, in conjunction with a broader international effort, to prevent genocide or any wholesale slaughter than might happen inside of Iraq or anyplace else.
Barack Obama -
If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.
Octavio Paz
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power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, expect that any new deal will overturn the one that set them in authority; that the last shall be first and the first last, role reversal everywhere, men as slaves, women as masters, in a revolution of contradiction.
Elizabeth Janeway -
My best friend just had a baby, and she's my age. So I'm a godmom now, which is crazy.
Kristen Stewart -
Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
Emile Zola -
I'm never gonna stop the rain by complainin'...
Hal David -
When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.
W. H. Auden -
The present Europe is unfinished business unless the Balkans are a part of it.
Paddy Ashdown
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Our underclothes were woolen vests and knickers and an extraordinary, but apparently necessary, concoction called a liberty bodice, which had no freedom about it, so how it got its name I cannot imagine. It was made of some harsh stuff, with here and there straps and buttons that did nothing.
Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire -
The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.
George Smoot