Gerald Holton Quotes
The unsolved problems of the physical world now seem even more formidable than those solved in the twentieth century.
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.
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Obviously Hall & Oates wasn't overlooked by the masses in terms of the record sales.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
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Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.
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There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.
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You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.
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Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.
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I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.
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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
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When the petals of the heart unfold, fragrance spreads across the valley.
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A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.
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George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.
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Ideology claims to be binding for the whole society. This development leads to typical problems. As the complexity of society increases, so do the demands upon ideology as a schema for solving problems; in particular, there occurs an unsurveyable increase in the interdependencies among the individual components of an ideology, whose consistency must continue to be maintained. Changes, accommodations, and renovations in an ideology become markedly dÃfficult, because every small step can have unforeseeable repercussions upon the premises appealed to. The burdens upon the reflexive and opportunistic mechanisms anchored in ideology then become excessive.
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The unsolved problems of the physical world now seem even more formidable than those solved in the twentieth century.
