J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
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If you see the NBA now, a lot of it is in transition. Most people now try to get an easy shot off in six or eight seconds before the defense gets set.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.
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Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.
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If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.
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As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
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I am kind of like a diesel. It is the cyclist in me.
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.