Clyde Tombaugh Quotes
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
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It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it's been pretty good for us, and it's been pretty good for Europe, and it's kept peace.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.
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I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.
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I set my sights on making an Olympic team, not realizing how tough it was going to be.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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I learned from McDonald's that we can do great things from a marketing and advertising perspective, but if the experience at the restaurant isn't superior, it might not matter.
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I often say to prospective clients, 'Nothing will age faster than your hardware.' Even the thinnest touch screen will look like a toaster oven in a number of years.
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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
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Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting.
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Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.
