Gordon Gould Quotes

The real technical problems came because people working on the project didn't really follow my proposal at all, but set out to do other things instead of making a laser.

Gordon Gould

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: physicist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 17, 1920 - September 16, 2005

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The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.

Joel Coen

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I think the most important thing when you're telling a story is to just tell the story as best as you possibly can.

Andrea Riseborough

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I was signed at 18 and had to grow up quickly.

Rita Ora

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Mainstream dictionary definitions reduce racism to racial prejudice and the personal actions that result. But this definition does little to explain how racial hierarchies are consistently reproduced.

Robin DiAngelo

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A hero is a man who does what he can.

Romain Rolland

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For some reason, I always thought I was special. And for some reason, I always thought that I had a purpose in life: that I was supposed to contribute to the world.

Rosie Perez

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People don't seem to make the connection between their tax money and the benefits that they get from their tax money, like free education, and the fire department, and police protection, and everything else. It drives me bonkers, because it's pretty straightforward to me.

Michael Schur

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I'm indeed a mandasi seller, and I'm proud of it, because the majority of women in Malawi are like us, mandasi sellers.

Joyce Banda

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It seems to me that women have made an awful lot of progress, but they probably remain underrepresented at the highest levels of most organizations, for a variety of reasons. And it's probably going to take a long time to change that.

Janet Yellen

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The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

Clint Eastwood

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Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded.

Chrysippus

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Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.

William Irwin Thompson

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