J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
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We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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The Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I'm not astounded at its continued success. It gives a lot of guys an opportunity to extend their careers.
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Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
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I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.
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Even if you live in a tiny village, there's an Internet site. It's quite easy to find clothes, but sometimes women don't know how to mix them.
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I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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I actually worked for a small company in Ohio that sort of farmed out work from Disney and Dreamworks, so I really only ever worked in two studios.
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I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
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Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.
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I didn't have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I'll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader from Groot Eylandt on who was on the National Women's Advisory Council with me.
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I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
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The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.
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Whatever it is you do, practice your art; practice your trade. Learn as much as you can about what it is you're doing and apply that as much as you can, because the application of it is what is going to mostly get you where you think you want to be.
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Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.
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I can make it clearer; I can't make it simpler.
