J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes

It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation according to brother, Frank)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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• I think my numbers speak for themselves.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Numbers

• 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.'

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Business
  • American
  • English

• 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.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Human
  • Try
  • Emotions

• You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

  

  Q-Tip
  • You
  • Hate
  • Know

• 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.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Children
  • Community
  • Health

• 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.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Change
  • Journalism

• 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.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Work
  • Why
  • Government

• 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.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Best

• If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Numbers

• Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Violence
  • Ignorant
  • Tool

• Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Sometimes

• 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.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Think
  • Start

• 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.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Believe
  • Free
  • Support

• I've always been a bit of a documentarian.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Always
  • Been
  • Bit

• If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Life
  • Live
  • End

• 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.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Kids
  • Beach
  • Away

• 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.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Mom

• I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Think
  • Writer
  • Freak

• That is one of the benefits of having so many media outlets under one umbrella. It will definitely direct traffic.

  

  David Joyce
  • Media
  • Benefits
  • Direct

• Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Mistakes
  • Anger
  • Achievements

• I remember at the age of, and I'll say this, 10 and a half, 11, I had a natural boy soprano.

  

  Anthony Warlow
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Boy

• I've read about myself and my husband and my family, to the point where they've called my parents, they've called my brothers, offering money to tell stories. They call friends of mine. I'd just like for them to just ... don't badger us. Don't scrutinize us. We have children and they have to live, too. It's not fair.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Live
  • Children
  • Family

• I'm like a bunch of college guys who got together and said, 'Let's make a dude, a crazy dude'.

  

  Chris Kirkpatrick NSYNC
  • Together
  • College
  • Crazy

• It worked." (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation according to brother, Frank)

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Brother