Lee H. Hamilton Quotes
I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.
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Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
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Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.
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GQ: 'Who’ll be the first of the Smiths to die?'M: 'Me. I’ll be shot – probably by one of the ex-Smiths.'
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To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.
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I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.
