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Lisa Randall Quotes

If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: physicist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 18, 1962

Topics

Women Science Men You Look Find

I feel compelled not to pass on a vision of bleakness, destruction or cynicism. I want to tell the truth as I see it, but I also have to believe that individuals - my kids, your kids, whoever - can do something about it, and I want to show the ways in which they can do something about it.

John Edgar Wideman

Truth Vision Believe Feel Want See

Unfortunately, the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

Education Children Achievement Labor

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

America Ferrera

Truth Me Random Truth Is Story Name

I have a secret stash of Nutella that I pull out when necessary. That chocolate-hazelnut combo is my wife's kryptonite.

Michael Weatherly

Wife Secret Out Necessary Pull

Everybody has the right to be who they choose to be.

Montel Williams

Choose Right Who Everybody

I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.

Giving Agriculture Reason See I See

I was a fan of 'Six Feet Under' and was very sad when it ended, so I was not ready to switch my allegiance to another show. So I was like, 'I'm not watching this 'True Blood.' Then a friend got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes, and by the third one, I was irrevocably hooked.

Friend Sad Feet Ready Copy True

My dad is huge on music, so he always made tapes from his friends. That's how I got into music.

Chris Harris, Jr.

Music Friends Always Got Made He

When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I kill someone, would you still love me?' My parents were very preoccupied with this, but I think I'm not the only one to ask for that - not love, but absolute fidelity.

Love Father Mother Morning Parents

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

William J. H. Boetcker

Respect People Better Doing You May

Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

Time Management You Know Percent

I have a freedom that's incredibly valuable. Obviously my freedom is far smaller in scale than people like Zemeckis and Spielberg have here. But it's comparable. I can dream up a project, develop it, make it, control it, release it.

Freedom People Control Dream I Can

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