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Jocelyn Bell Burnell Quotes

I may not have got the Nobel Prize, but I've won countless other awards, including 'Most Inspirational Living Woman Scientist.'

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Inspirational Woman Living Awards

It is time to end the discrimination against people who need treatment for chemical addiction. It is time for Congress to deal with our Nation's number one public health problem.

Health Time People End Problem Need

The myth is that women and their families don't have to make trade-offs to have an 'extreme career'; they absolutely do. How you prioritize your life and career is your choice. Once you make a decision, stick to it; don't always second-guess yourself.

Life Women Decision Yourself You

I think it's an impulse for human beings to want to suffer less, and we're kind of addicted to comfort at all costs - at least, I am.

I Am Think Comfort Want Kind Human

I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all.

Mary-Kate Olsen

Me Feel Look Connected Old Them

There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science, and then there's somebody who checks the checkers and somebody who checks the checker's checkers.

Michael Shermer

Science People Doing Checks Checking

I have travelled and been pretty much a one man operation for most of my career, and I think it'll continue to be that way.

Loudon Wainwright III

Man Think Career Way Pretty Been

Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.

Leadership You Look New Way See

The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War.

War World First Two Prime Different

Everyone wonders why I talk junk, but I was doomed from the beginning.

Beginning Why Talk Everyone Junk

Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.

American Kind Big Bowling Off Then

If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.

Progress Book Long Write Film Would

Since I was a baby my goal was to be on TV because film was just impossible - you never got any Asian women in Western cinema. I grew up wanting to be in 'East-Enders' because film wasn't even a dream. The community were very much like, 'How can you want to act? It's such a low-class profession.'

Women Community Baby Impossible Goal

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