J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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This is first time we've ever done one Russ and myself. We're looking forward to it. We have remained friends and kept in touch. Most of the 'West Side Story' cast, when we see each other, it's like it was yesterday. We're like a family. That experience brought us close together and we remained that way ever since. We all like each other.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
