J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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I would love to be a role model.
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I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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Life creates new heroes, and new heroes always find it easiest to beat up on the previous heroes.
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My dad was in the Second World War with General Patton. He won medals for bravery, but he came home quite damaged, so he was a handful. He told us some terrible stories, and I guess you'd say he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop the emotional musculature that will allow them to show self-restraint.
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The idea of critical windows extends beyond just vision, of course: almost every system in the brain has a critical window when it needs to experience certain stimuli, or it won't get wired up properly. The most obvious example is language: if you don't learn a language early on, it's nigh impossible to become truly fluent.
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Money doesn't transform a person - the only thing that can is love.
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We knew the world would not be the same.
