J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.
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I write in a small office at home.
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Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
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I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
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Everyone you talk to in the world, whether they know it or not, because the catalog is so vast, a lot of times people have favorite songs that are Motown songs that they didn't even know were Motown songs.
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Maybe one thing is that you have to find the best way to write whatever works better for you.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
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When I was a kid, I had serious athlete's foot and nosebleeds.
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There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.
