Edward M. Purcell Quotes
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My 93-year-old grandma is a beautiful example of healthy living. She laughs a lot and always says, 'Just be yourself!' She also eats dessert every single day.
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
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I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
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Ty Walker doesn't wear suits very much. He's not used to being that pressed and conservative businessman. So, he's self-conscious anyway about walking around in these skinny-legged suits, and then for someone to sort of assume that's who he is, it really bothers him.
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I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.
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The idea of exposing the British public to the full breadth of my personality isn't a good one.
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Massage is very important for relaxing.
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I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.
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You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.
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Ages of restriction to the one tool which the law was not able to take from him-his brain-have made that tool singularly competent...
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We didn't know he'd be back this week, but we had seen him on film and expected him to be back.
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Since I've been in the Senate, is that my work with people like Tom Coburn on opening up transparency in government, making sure that every dollar the federal government spends that's out there - that that's all posted on a searchable database on the Internet.
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He's showing the league what he's about. He's a really good point guard who does what's asked of him. You already know you're going to get good shooting out of him. But the way he's defending and running the ball club -- those are things every team wants. Free agency is going to be great for him this summer.
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Each of my paintings is a cycle. It’s like existence, life. They are always in motion.. .If they were fixed and static, they would be false.
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The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people - on acts, and objects, and places, and ways of life. The camera brings a kind of stardom to them all. I therefore doubt that film can ever argue effectively against its own material: that a genuine antiwar film, say, can be made on the basis of even the ugliest battle scenes ... No matter what filmmakers intend, film always argues yes.
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Motion at low Reynolds number is very majestic, slow, and regular.
