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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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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North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989.
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I've come up with the three things you never want to hear at your kid's parent/teacher conference. Number one: 'You're only responsible for the first $10,000 worth of damage.' Number two: 'We have medication for this.' And number three: 'It was more than an ounce and he was less than 100 yards from the school.'
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I think it was a wake up call for everybody. Yeah, they could see that I had a weakness and a tendency to overindulge.
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I will purify my bodily actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my verbal actions through repeated reflection. I will purify my mental actions through repeated reflection. That's how you should train yourself.
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My favorite word is 'redemption.' I like both its meaning and the sound. My least favorite word is 'maybe.' 'Maybe' is almost always a 'no' drawn out in cruel fashion.
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Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.
