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Jocelyn Bell Burnell Quotes

I didn't always have research jobs.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: irish
Birth: July 15, 1943

Topics

Research Always Jobs

No, let's make sure that people understand that this is a very important war that is helping to protect us here at home. And that we have no choice but to win it. As difficult as it is.

Home War People Win Choice Protect

I have sung, but I haven't sung in any way that I would ever call myself 'a singer.'

Myself Way Singer Call Would Ever

Airships could be part of the answer to Africa's infrastructure woes - if the financial challenges are overcome.

Jens Martin Skibsted

Challenges Financial Africa Overcome

I love changing. I hate it when people try to box me in to a relationship or in a work context. Any situation where I feel boxed in freaks me out. And I feel the need to reinvent myself or I'll get bored.

Work Love Relationship Myself Hate

I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?

Children Me Find Wall Street Accept

A crenelated wall of books encircles my bed, its tottering towers looming ever taller, always on the verge of collapsing onto oblivious sleepers.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Wall Bed Always Books Towers Ever

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

Life Friendship Great Art Joy Want

Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.

Me You Place Write How Taught

I first saw 'West Side Story' on stage in 1958. I was in the army, having been conscripted while under contract to MGM. I caught the musical in New York, fell in love with it, bought the album, and memorised the whole thing.

Love New York Story Army New First

I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.

Music Me Writing Wish Listen I Wish

Courts are supposed to interpret laws to avoid 'absurd results' and to avoid constitutional problems - such as infringing on the free speech rights of Americans.

Free Problems Speech Results Rights

It is fashionable to be a college dropout, no? Like Steve Jobs.

College Like Steve Jobs Jobs Steve

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