Up Quotes
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I just thought Harvard sounded great. So let's see if I get in. I didn't really have a big back-up plan.
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Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.
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I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.
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It's a real concern, ... It's a problem. We've got to get it corrected because you won't win games up here turning the ball over and I'd still say those are two areas where we have not showed the kind of improvement I'd like -- turning the ball over and penalties. So it's something for a real focus from now until game time. In the regular season, we've got to try to find something to fix it.
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Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.
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My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.
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Thousands of kids and parents come up to us and say, How do we get better as a singer?
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I kind of like to write fast. It keeps the pacing up. And it keeps me off the streets.
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I grew up loving music, like, loving it. I was involved in church choir, leading worship and all the choirs in my school - even glee club.
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Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large.
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I sat and thought for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me.
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I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, and my mother - they all felt pretty passionately about the importance of standing up and doing the right thing, and none of them were suck-ups. What motivates me is usually abuse of power.
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And whatever my weight, I've always been skinny from the waist up.
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The first thing is to be willing. You must become willing to feel the discomfort that's occurred and/or shown up. Some of it is taking ownership of your part in the situation, to clean it up and be willing to make amends.
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The best start-ups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference is that cults tend to be fanatically wrong about something important. People at a successful start-up are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed.
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I've convinced myself I'm something special. When you do that, man, you're dangerous, especially when you have the athleticism and work ethic to back it up.
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Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.
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I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.
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I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by going over what I had done the previous day, which my wife has happily typed up for me.
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I don't need an alarm clock to wake up in the morning. Akshay snores so loudly that I'm usually awake the entire night!
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I really don't see little girls growing up and thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to morph myself so I look like Barbie.'
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It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own.
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It's so important to raise people to grow up to be who they are and not be forced to be who they're not. What an awful thing to do to people - it's like being in prison.
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You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father and mother if I allowed you to expose yourself to such temptation.' Well, I know I'm not a Christian and I'm beginning to doubt whether I'm a gentleman,' said Philip.
