J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
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When people think of me, I want them to think of a travel show host who's really funny and good at his job, and I think eventually the CP won't even play into it, or at least that's the goal.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
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I don't like controversy.
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
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If you're an average married couple, you're going to lie to your spouse in one out of every 10 interactions. Now, you may think that's bad. If you're unmarried, that number drops to three.
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It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
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These people are making a choice for peace and that means that the time is coming in which this insurgency will have no foothold, in which it will be defeated, defeated by Iraqis and in which we can fully come home.
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Order, cleanliness, seemliness make a structure that is half support, half ritual, and - if it does not create it - maintains decency.
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People never remember but the computer never forgets. (p. 69)
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Because the only thing that punk rock should ever really mean, is not sitting 'round and waiting for the lights to go green.
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A Prayer of Anselm My God, I pray that I may so know you and love you that I may rejoice in you. And if I may not do so fully in this life let me go steadily on to the day when I come to that fullness . . . Let me receive That which you promised through your truth, that my joy may be full.
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Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.
