J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.
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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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In the '90s, I wouldn't have been a supermodel.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
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I try to stay away from the more schmaltzy side of things. That can backfire quickly.
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The root cause of xenophobia in Russia is not religious differences between Muslims and Christians. Nor is it crime. The root cause is the terrible education that children acquire on the street, at school, and at home.
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Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.
