J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

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• I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • House
  • Hate
  • Day

• I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Work
  • Game
  • Training

• I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Drawing
  • Library
  • Walls

• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Bad
  • Respect
  • Government

• What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Desire
  • First

• Everything begins with an idea.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Idea
  • Everything
  • Begins

• The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Kind
  • Human
  • Monsters

• God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • God
  • Understanding

• The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Why
  • Want
  • Cancer

• I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
  • Inspired
  • Appreciate

• I've always been fond of acoustic music.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Fond

• I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He's the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Father
  • Me
  • Popular

• To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • Love
  • Guy
  • Community

• Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Ability
  • Over
  • Disability

• With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but it's so good for your body, and I just love the taste of it. It's so fresh; I love it!

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Good
  • Body
  • Looks

• Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Career
  • End
  • Sense

• In terms of talking with my collaborators as they came onboard - Jeannine Oppewall, our production designer, Dante Spinotti, our cinematographer, and so forth - I said to them, "Let's pretend that this is a place like Honolulu. Let's ignore the fact that all these other movies have been made here for decades and try to come at it with a fresh eye, as if it were an exotic city that people aren't that familiar with. And let's present our own view of it, create a world that's unique to this movie [L.A Confidential].

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

  

  Elizabeth Joan Smith
  • Religious

• Thanks for the advice, but it never pays to run from a bully. That would only endanger whoever I chose to stay with.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Advice
  • Chose
  • Endanger

• It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Dream
  • Man
  • Woman

• Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Action
  • Moral
  • Language

• Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Live
  • Man
  • Science