Gregory Benford Quotes

Dinner at college high table is one of the legendary experiences of England. I could remember keenly each one I had attended; the repartee is sharper than the cutlery.

Gregory Benford

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CollegeDinnerRememberTableHigh

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

Melinda Gates

ChildrenChildLookTake For Granted

I was a very weird child. I was very shy, so in school I would just mimic stand-up sets of Whoopi Goldberg.

Melissa Rauch

SchoolChildWeirdShyJustWould

A key goal for an author of history is to persuade his or her readers to forget what they know and to relive the world as it unfolded for characters of the time - with outcomes uncertain.

Del Quentin Wilber

HistoryTimeWorldKeyGoalKnow

I worked a full-time job at a place call Caraustar. We recycle paper, then through recycled paper, we take it and we make V board out of it. If you buy a TV, a new couch, you see these little V boards that make like a V.

Demetrious Johnson

JobYouPlaceNewSeeOut

You go into any doughnut shop and look at three cops having coffee, I guarantee I look like one of them.

Dean Norris

CoffeeYouLookGoThreeGuarantee

Acting requires a great amount of empathy for real lived human experiences.

Cole Sprouse

GreatEmpathyActingHumanReal

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.

Philip Emeagwali

LifeTimeLibraryMy LifeWeekSaw

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

Paul Tillich

OthersCrueltyAlwaysOurselvesAlso

I got access to a private tour of the zoo. I got to go in a cage with a koala, which I highly recommend.

Todd Barry

GoZooCageGotKoalaTour

Being a huge football fan, the chance to work for the NFL and do a show combining sports and entertainment is truly a dream come true.

Rich Eisen

WorkSportsFootballChanceDream

The European Union has become a prison of peoples. Each of the 28 countries that constitute it has slowly lost its democratic prerogatives to commissions and councils with no popular mandate. Every nation in the union has had to apply laws it did not want for itself.

Marine Le Pen

PrisonLostWantBecomeNationLaws

I fell in love with the idea of writing songs when I was a child. I thought I was going to be a journalist at first, but I gradually fell in love with all these great writers like Irving Berlin and Cole Porter, who were at the peak of their powers then.

Leslie Bricusse

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