J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
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I look at my voice and my abilities as a gift. I don't feel that I can even take any credit for it, but it's such a huge presence in my life. It is my life. It's my identity, it's everything. And it's given me a great deal of joy and a sense of purpose - I can't imagine my life without it.
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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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I had an agent. When [Edward] Steichen was doing "The Family of Man", I went up to the office one day. I think Wayne Miller, who assisted Steichen with "The Family of Man," was up there and pulled out a bunch of pictures. So I got a message: "Take these pictures, call Steichen, make an appointment and take these pictures up there." And that's how I met him.
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A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality.
