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Woody Norris Quotes

I became an inventor by accident. I was out of the Air Force in 1956. No, no, that's not true: I went in in 1956, came out in 1959, was working at the University of Washington, and I came up with an idea, from reading a magazine article, for a new kind of a phonograph tone arm.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: inventor
Nationality: american
Birth: 1938

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Reading New Washington Kind True Up

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Listening Voice You Listen Own Your

I had a mild case of polio - not enough to put me in an iron lung, but enough to keep me bedridden for weeks. As I came out of it, my mom wanted to do something for me. She realized that, growing up in the city, I'd missed out on a lot of nature.

Nature City Me Mom Growing Up She

I still feel 29. Maybe I should act my age more, but I just can't.

Age Feel More Act Just Still

Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes.

Mary Lou Retton

Home Media Important Away Glare

I'm in this business for too long to be halfhearted about anything.

Business Long Anything About Too

I do love horses, but I'd rather be on motorcycles.

Love Horses Rather Motorcycles

I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!

Christopher Dodd

Care Going Give Needs Wants Public

Even the very youngest children already are perfectly able to discriminate between the imaginary and the real, whether in books or movies or in their own pretend play. Children with the most elaborate and beloved imaginary friends will gently remind overenthusiastic adults that these companions are, after all, just pretend.

Children Friends Play Movies Will

I have a strong sense of injustice and not admitting things just because that is the way someone says it should be. I need to understand. I need to agree.

Strong Someone Injustice Just Because

Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor.

Party Congress Debt Limit Painful

In building a management team, I look for integrity, loyalty, vision, and a willingness to think outside of the box, and challenge the status quo. I also look for people who have a good sense of humor and who value and empower their team.

Good Integrity Loyalty Vision Humor

Keep under strict surveillance and control those secret establishments which, within your government structures, seem to regard themselves as above the law.

Government Law Control Secret Within

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