Edward Teller Quotes
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in the world without traditional structure, and her friend, who was in advertising, put me in a commercial when I was five. It was just to make money.
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People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
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We try and reflect that there's a lot of optimism, there's a lot of positive things that are happening in 'Silicon Valley'.
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After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.
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I'm a winner; I win most of the time. But in order to be a winner, you have to lose some of the time. I'm a terrible loser.
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There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.
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Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.
