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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Don't criticize, condemn or complain. Constantly criticizing, condemning and complaining is what breaks most relationships. Instead of criticizing and condemning, figure out how you can solve the problem together. Instead of focusing on blaming the other person for what they did wrong, focus on how you can avoid the problem next time.
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It is more important to let a child's imagination develop than it is to labor to inculcate in him or her some correct ethical point of view.
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Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks
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The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.
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From Blue Valentine I kept my wedding ring. I actually kept it on for a while. After the shooting had stopped, I was still wearing it – I couldn’t quite take it off – and now I keep it above the kitchen sink where I do dishes, as a little memento.
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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.
