Luis Walter Alvarez Quotes
If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.
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Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
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The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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Whether I'm hitting .100 or .300, I have resolved to at least enjoy every game.
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Guys try to take you out of the game if they know they can. So especially if you've got a playmaker, guys on the defense would do that.
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I have three Defensive Players of the Year. Only one other player has done that. But being a defensive lineman, it's hard to control the game.
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I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
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There's a famous slogan here in the Bavarian dialect, and we use it inside Bayern Munich. We say, 'Mia san mia.' Literally, it is, 'We are we,' but it means, 'We are who we are.' That's not being very arrogant, but we are very confident about our ability to win the game. It is about a winning mentality.
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To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.
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Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.
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I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to break some rules.
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My older brother, who was in the Army, now owns his own building company. My half-sister was a nurse and is now a psychotherapist.
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If I'm going to wind up playing left, I want to be the best left fielder in the game. I'll work to be that.
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Liberals have invented whole college majors - psychology, sociology and women's studies - to prove that nothing is anybody's fault.
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I will see this game of life out to its bitter end.
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Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.
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On the whole, life is unfair in the way it works out. It is a game played without an umpire!
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We're professionals and we have to come to work and play the game. They had to sit through the same thing except they had to sit on the bench.
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I want to produce and direct and write one day.
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If you laugh at that, you lower the bar, and I will limbo under it because I am a fucked-up guy!
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If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.
