Godfrey Hounsfield Quotes

I was born and brought up near a village in Nottinghamshire and in my childhood enjoyed the freedom of the rather isolated country life. After the First World War, my father had bought a small farm, which became a marvelous playground for his five children.

Godfrey Hounsfield

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 28, 1919 - August 12, 2004

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So it's a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can't get media at all to make your case. And that's where cases tend to be made politically.

Robert McChesney

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George Carlin's album, 'Class Clown,' came out when I was in high school. I memorized a lot of that album. I'd come home from school, put it on, and listen over and over. I started memorizing it. I don't even know why. I loved it so much I memorized it.

Steven Wright

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My job as an intelligence officer, detective, was to monitor any subversive activity which could negatively impact the city of Colorado Springs. And, let's face it: the Ku Klux Klan, historically, is a subversive group.

Ron Stallworth

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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Lord Byron

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Music is chaos. When I write songs, I'm opening the door to madness.

Josh Tillman

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You don't want everyone to know everything about you.

Diego Luna

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I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness.

Conrad Veidt

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My favorite guitar players are Chuck Berry and Brian May and Dave Davies from the Kinks.

Brittany Howard

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The thing that enchants me the most is the ability women have to feel other people's pain. The total empathy that women have is extraordinary.

Ashton Kutcher

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Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.

Pico Iyer

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I want to thank the people of New Orleans and south Louisiana. New Orleans is my hometown, and of course they support their own team, the Saints, but they also support their own, and that city and state have backed me from the start.

Peyton Manning

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You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.

Rickey Henderson

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