J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes

Well - yes. In modern times, of course.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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• One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Realize

• I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Pigs

• My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Age
  • Career
  • Man

• We are like a traveling circus, our family! We sing, we dance, we do football, we do fashion.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Family
  • Fashion
  • Football

• I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Children
  • Day

• If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Want
  • You
  • Yourself

• I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Government
  • Wood
  • Sheep

• Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • People
  • Real
  • School

• There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • Music
  • Between

• What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Forever

• There are not many people on Team Gary. Actually, it's two people. My kids.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Kids
  • Team

• New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Music
  • City

• I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much hip-hop as they could. I didn't do that until I started rapping.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Kids
  • Hip Hop

• Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • High
  • Wind
  • Acceptance

• I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Father
  • Decisions
  • Own

• Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Life
  • Men
  • Only

• The things I have sold to film, I've sold because I was happy to rent out the right to adapt those works. Some things, I haven't sold to film, because I was less interested in having no control over the adaptation.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Happy
  • Control
  • Adapt

• A doctor, a judge, or a piece of paper shouldn't have the power to tell someone who he or she is. We should all have the absolute and inalienable right to define ourselves, in our own terms and in our own languages, and to be able to express our identity and perspectives without fear of consequences and retribution.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • She
  • Power
  • Fear

• I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Want
  • Expectations
  • My Own

• There's no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • World
  • Feeling

• I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.

  

  Jeffrey Archer
  • Life
  • Writing
  • City

• I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart
  • God

• Well - yes. In modern times, of course.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer