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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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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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.
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The real people who hold our civilization together are the maintenance people. If it weren't for them - pumping water out of subways, painting bridges to keep from rusting, fixing a steam pipe that is 70 years old - we'd be sunk. If we got rid of all the politicians and the policymakers in the world, the world would keep going. If you get rid of maintenance people, the whole thing breaks down.
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Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.
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If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.
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I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.
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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.
