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I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.

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• I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and priorities. One of the most visible examples of this is our decision to close on Sunday.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Success
  • Decision
  • Financial

• Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Him
  • Near
  • Unto

• Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Important
  • Me

• A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • You
  • Artist
  • Yourself

• The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Advice
  • Give
  • Someone

• There's always merit to having a debate.

  

  Ward Churchill
  • Always
  • Debate
  • Merit

• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• I want to do whatever I can to survive.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Want
  • I Can
  • Survive

• The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Reality
  • Failure
  • Software

• If I say 'Find me an interesting painting' to Google, someday a robot could go around the Picasso museum and take a picture for me.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Interesting
  • Picture
  • Museum

• We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Thanks
  • Congress

• Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Fun
  • Most
  • Ever

• Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Child
  • Parent
  • Constitution

• I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect women's access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Women
  • Health
  • Decisions

• Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Think
  • Artists
  • Actually

• It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • Own
  • Worth

• I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • World
  • Feel
  • Belong

• CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • America

• I once met a man who was a billionaire, and I said to him: 'Are you a self-made man?' - and he turned around and said: 'No man is self-made;' and certainly, if you want to make films or get into television or even theatre, the amount of help that you need, the amount of people who need to give you a helping hand is extraordinary.

  

  Christian McKay
  • People
  • Help
  • Hand

• My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the public schools to black kids.

  

  Bryan Stevenson
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Lived it and I'm still here to talk about it and help someone else if I can.

  

  Iyanla Vanzant
  • Help
  • Talk
  • Lived

• As a musician usually music is your way out.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Music
  • Way
  • Musician

• I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.

  

  Alan J. Heeger
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