Mildred Dresselhaus Quotes

I think women benefit from being in places and having positions where the quality of work is the criteria, not what you look like. Not every place is like that.

Mildred Dresselhaus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 11, 1930 - February 20, 2017

Topics

WorkWomenQualityThinkYouLook

I loved 'Top Gun.' I watched it all growing up.

Jimmy Graham

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For me, I wear a suit because I need to remember what's happened before me.

Jidenna

MeRememberNeedWearSuitHappened

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

Michael Chang

MyselfCompetitionDoingPossible

I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.

Sonia Sotomayor

PurposeMeActionDoorsCreateRun

The better the orchestra, often the harder it is to conduct, not the other way around.

Simon Rattle

BetterWayOrchestraHarderConduct

The Church controlled so much in Ireland for so long. I'm not going to get into whether or not religion per se is a bad thing, but my point is the political aspect in Ireland was way out of kilter, and it wasn't right.

Roisin Murphy

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Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.

David Talbot

TimeStoryAmericanJournalismNow

If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner.

Chris Rock

YouCleanRoomCleanerBeforeGets

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

LoveJusticeMenHappySmallStrong

Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.

Brit Hume

PeopleRememberYouBackI CanNews

We're confronted with great darkness as a species right now as spiritual creatures on this planet. I don't think it's hopeless, and I don't want 'You've Never Seen Everything' to make people feel hopeless. But I think we've got to call a spade a spade.

Bruce Cockburn

GreatDarknessSpiritualPeopleYou

I keep these songs in my head until I get behind the microphone. I never spend more than 30 or 40 minutes singing the vocal or it will sound mechanical. There are always mistakes, but it's about feeling more than being perfect.

Brian McKnight

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