Sidney Altman Quotes

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

Sidney Altman

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WorkOpportunityWaitingPhysics

Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.

Jerry Saltz

ArtStrongEarlyHeightsOutComing

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud.

Maurice Blanchot

MusicPeoplePaintingProudLovers

The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.

Stokely Carmichael

BloodMassesBenefitShedFew

Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon.

Sid Meier

YouCivilizationNowDevelopmentUp

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

Tom Wolfe

GodJournalismNewKindUpForever

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?

Dick Wolf

HistoryFocusPeopleSayingEarly

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success.

Clint Eastwood

SuccessLanguageLongYouPlaceGet

On stage you can get away with a lot more in the sense of emotion and truthfulness. But the camera is the eye of God. It sees everything.

Cindy Busby

GodEyeCameraYouMoreEmotion

When the Internet first appeared, this heated debate developed among economists. One side said the Internet will make it easier for companies to price-discriminate, and it'll be fabulously profitable.

Austan Goolsbee

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During crazy times, I just hold back. People are so quick to jump on something or rip it apart.

Shawn Mendes

PeopleCrazyBackJumpQuickHold

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

Tim Berners-Lee

PeopleThinkFailSocialMachines

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother.

Justin Townes Earle

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