Edward M. Purcell Quotes
I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
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The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.
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If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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My childhood was appalling.
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I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
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We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
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Broadway is a very different kind of place. It's kind of like Nashville in that there's a certain amount of people that are involved, and those people are what run it.
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Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
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I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.
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If you have a guy over, and there's a whole bunch of china from your wedding, it's not a good idea.
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On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punch line in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience.
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I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.
