J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation according to brother, Frank)
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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I think the main reason is that people binge watch because they can. We're like dogs, really. If we like something, we tend to gorge ourselves on it until there's no more left. And as bingeing becomes possible and commonplace, it's only natural that shows should start to take it into account.
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I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.
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I've always been a bit of a documentarian.
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If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?
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I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.
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Anytime there was an award show, it was a ritual where me and my mom would sit around and watch with my friends. We would make desserts and buy chips and popcorn and see what our favorite performances of the night were.
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I work incredibly hard - just like every other person in business and work. And aside from the fact of, yes, I am the brother of someone very important, I am, at the end of the day, just James.
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Art will never be able to exist without nature.
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It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation according to brother, Frank)
