Luis Walter Alvarez Quotes
Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I have a younger brother and sister who actually play in my band, and we were always into Disney music, big time. The first time I heard myself sing was when I recorded myself singing a Disney song. I remember it because it was awful, and I didn't expect to hear that. I think it was 'A Whole New World' from 'Aladdin.'
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First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio.
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All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
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It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
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I don't like possessions.
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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Every guy should own one good pair of jeans.
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Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.
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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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I have neither time to live nor to write. I am therefore cheating my art by stealing a few evening hours to write this most inadequate and negligent reply to the courteous and elegant letters of yours.
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When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.
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Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.
