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John C. Mather Quotes

My work at NASA has always been about team efforts, and so it's intrinsically about mentoring. I have been blessed with some brilliant colleagues who were able to take on huge challenges without a lot of guidance.

John C. Mather

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 7, 1946

Topics

Work Team Challenges Blessed NASA

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

Robert Graves

Poet Rather Than Profession

A recent Pew Hispanic survey found that more than 70 percent of illegal immigrants from Mexico are interested in a guest-worker program and then returning home.

John Shadegg

Home Immigrants Returning More

Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing.

Amitava Kumar

Great Writing Gift Journalism Well

I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.

Amy Heckerling

Life Time Experience Wonderful Just

Janet Carroll and Robert Pine, Chris Pine's dad, were in my first play, and they were so astonishingly good, I felt it raised my game instantly.

Stephen Karam

Good Game Play First Pine Raised

I never really had any grand aspirations of mainstream country success because I know what that entails, and I'd probably be too much trouble for people to work with. If I can just reach the point where I can get 200 or 300 people in small clubs and I'm carving out enough money to pay my bills, then I'm the happiest guy I know.

Sturgill Simpson

Work Success Money People Small

There is a duality in recognising what an incredible disease it is - in terms of its origin, that it emerges out of a normal cell. It's a reminder of what a wonderful thing a normal cell is. In a very cold, scientific sense, I think a cancer cell is a kind of biological marvel.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Cold Think Kind Out Normal Cancer

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

Rose McGowan

Life Love Comedy Kind Things Absurd

All I know how to do is take what's on my mind and spit it out funny. I don't know what else I could do besides comedy.

Ron White

Funny Mind Comedy Know Out Take

Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader.

Rumaan Alam

Organizing Useful Writer Between

I find the positive in the negative all the time. Any time you give something power, it wins, and it can continuously happen, so I just let negative people know they have no place in my life. They have no place around my children.

Monica

Life Positive Power Children Time

If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell your stories, your family's stories, then?

Dorothy Allison

Family You Write Tell Would Your