J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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C'est une maladie naturelle à l'homme de croire qu'il possède la vérité directement…
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Most of my life, I feel I have been Unicycling at the Edge of the Abyss! If fact, this will be the name of my book if I ever write one, or a one man stand up routine. I have used it as the name of a collection of my musical compositions written during the '90s. It fits the scary journey I feel I've been on.
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Mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience; all else is remote inference.
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For each person, they live their life and their truth and how it works for them, and that's just kind of how it works for me. I'm not good at doing whatever the other way is - it wouldn't work for me.
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The people of this world must unite or they will perish.
