Arthur Holly Compton Quotes
At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar’s last breath.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.
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The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.
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I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week.
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I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.
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Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.
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If I had a picture of two handcuffed criminals being booked, I would cut the picture in half and get five bucks for each.
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Learning what you don't want to do is the next best thing to figuring out what you want to do.
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Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.
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The great thing in hitting is, not to be half-hearted about it; but when you make up your mind to hit, to do it as if the whole match depended upon that particular stroke.
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I've always looked at directing as the next step for me in my creative career, and after spending the better part of the last decade on a television set absorbing as much as I could from in front of the camera, I'm now eager to learn as much as I can from behind it.
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When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.
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The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.
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I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.
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Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole.
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The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.
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We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the highway would I take it," I said. Even if I were such a man as to desire this thing, and even though I knew not clearly what this thing was when I spoke, still I should take those words as a vow, and be held by them.
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We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.
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While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.
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I've learned during my life that if I am in hell, I make my own glory. I've also been in glory, and perhaps I've made my own hell, but I certainly don't take anyone down with me.
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At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar’s last breath.
