Gerald Holton Quotes
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.Gerald Holton
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
Nancy Roman -
I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
Dan Jenkins -
We always knew when we took on the issue of violence against women that somehow our opposition would come after us.
Patricia Ireland -
In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
Raf Simons -
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Irving Kristol
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The Chinese government attaches importance to, and protects, human rights. We have incorporated these lines into the Chinese constitution, and we also implement the stipulation in real earnest. I think for any government, what is most important is to ensure that its people enjoy each and every right given to them by the constitution.
Wen Jiabao -
I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
Maira Kalman -
I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
Pat Morita -
I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
Maggie Smith -
The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days... demonstrated that core character over and over again.
Ted Baillieu -
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
Zane Grey
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But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
Mahatma Gandhi -
One must be something in order to do something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
L'offenseur ne pardonne jamais.1
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
USA Today doesn't like my 'tone,' humor, sarcasm, etc. etc., which raises the intriguing question of why they hired me to write for them in the first place. Perhaps they thought they were getting Catherine Coulter.
Ann Coulter -
Without calling the overall national issue a bubble, it's pretty clear that it's an unsustainable underlying pattern.
Alan Greenspan -
Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended.
Keith Thibodeaux
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The Obama administration notoriously refuses to acknowledge that Islamists commit Islamist terror, so it logically follows that a Christian victim of Islamist violence should not address the issue lest it challenge accepted political orthodoxy.
Pete Hoekstra -
It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!
Vaclav Havel -
I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.
Charlie Kaufman -
To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
Dorothea Lange -
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.
John Updike -
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
Gerald Holton