J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. ... Our political life is also predicated on openness. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. And we know that as long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I will go running when I'm stressed out. The running helps, but more than anything, I'll put music on and then I'll run. I'll cry and get it all out.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.
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In half an hour, I'll know more than you do.
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The only reason anything was off-white at the Chateau was because it had once been just plain white.
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There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. ... Our political life is also predicated on openness. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. And we know that as long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress.
