Arthur Holly Compton Quotes
Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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I've never been a partier.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
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When James Bond gets old, you get rid of him and bring a new James Bond in.
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I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
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The way to write is well, and how is your own business.
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My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
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I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something.
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I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.
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I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is.
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The infectious diseases that regularly visited crowded Eurasian societies, and to which many Eurasians consequently developed immune or genetic resistance, included all of history's most lethal killers: smallpox, measles, influenza, plague, tuberculosis, typhus, cholera, malaria, and others.
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Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others.
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Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter?
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The goal, first and foremost, is to tell a satisfying - entertaining - story.
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Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are His children.
