J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
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If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.
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I do periodically ride a bus with my kids.
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I think things can surprise you. I mean, I loved Instagram from the minute it started, but I think it surprised a lot of people how quickly it got huge.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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I told my girls, 'Look at Rihanna: She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She's really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet in every single video she can only wear panties. Poor Rhianna! We'll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.'
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I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.
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My standard comment is, 'If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson.'
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All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.
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Don't tell me what delusion he entertains regarding God, or what mountebank he follows in politics, or what he springs from, or what he submits to from his wife. Simply tell me how he makes his living. It is the safest and surest of all known tests. A man who gets his board and lodging on this ball in an ignominious way is inevitably an ignominious man.
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In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
