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 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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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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Cities are those laboratories of democracy that states used to be.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen.
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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.
