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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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.
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It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
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Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
