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Richard J. Roberts Quotes

From age 16 on, I found school boring and failed A-level Physics at my first attempt. This was necessary for university entrance, and so I stayed an extra year to repeat it. This time, I did splendidly and was admitted to Sheffield University, my first choice because of their excellent Chemistry Department.

Richard J. Roberts

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: english
Birth: September 6, 1943

Topics

Age Time School Year Physics Choice

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

Attitude Future Alone Lie Government

Watching my kids grow up made me realize that they would never know a world or a time without the Internet.

Time Me World Grow Internet Know

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

John Lothrop Motley

Woman Animal Terrible Indeed

Records were vitally important to the development of music and of all music cultures. With that being pushed by the wayside, I can't see an iPod uniting us. In fact it separates us, the streets are full of people bumping into lamp posts, listening to their own little universe, and there's no sharing in that.

Music People Listening Universe See

I'm just an actress, so I can leave my work when I leave the set. I don't get strange calls in the middle of the night, and I don't have tons of responsibility.

Sidse Babett Knudsen

Work Responsibility Night I Can Get

During every race, an ambulance trails the riders around the course. You know that sometimes you are going to end up in the back of that ambulance.

End You Back Know Sometimes Race

Looking back now, I realise that belonging to the family of a labourer actually helped to prepare my body for boxing. There were many times when my family didn't have enough food or warm clothing to go around. All this made me physically, as well as emotionally, tough.

Family Food Me Looking Back Looking

Steve Jobs, if he had lived, was gonna design an iCar. I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design.

Opportunity Cool Think Design Lived

When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.

Life Time Desert Rest My Life Off

Writing has never been an intentional endeavor to me. I know a lot of people have experiences and then sit down and try to sort them out through song, but whenever I sit down to write, it comes out hackneyed or overly saccharine.

People Me Writing Song Down Know

I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.

Romantic Hopeless Will More Always

We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.

Chance Generation Now Left Economic

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