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Eric Allin Cornell Quotes

Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.

Eric Allin Cornell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: physicist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 19, 1961

Topics

Good Doing Realize Reason Something

Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.

World Inevitable First Him Realism

I'm unelectable in the District of Columbia.

Columbia District

In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John.

Son Two Daughters Married John

Makeup is not a mask that covers up your beauty; it's a weapon that helps you express who you are from the inside.

Beauty Makeup Mask You Inside Up

I don't understand people who want to leave a good job. To me, without being terribly judgmental, those are people who haven't gone through their stint of being out of work for long periods of time.

Work Good Time Job People Me

I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

Work Time People Reading Better You

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

Pressure Inevitable Diplomacy Force

After a few drinks, my mom would recite her lines as Portia in 'The Merchant of Venice' from her high school play. But I first discovered Shakespeare properly when I was about five. I used to look for the most complicated books I could find and pretend to be reading them. I wanted people to think I was smart.

School Smart People Mom Reading

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

Hope Art New Things Yourself You

If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Good Women Business Determination

When I was 16, I played Tallulah in 'Bugsy Malone' at the Queen's Theatre. Me and five others shared a flat together in Blackheath. It was brilliant being 16 and living in London with my mates.

Together Queen Me Theatre Living

No other teammates can help you when you're on the ice by yourself against the clock. So I decided that if I'm going to race on my own, I'm going to train on my own.

Yourself Help Ice You Train My Own

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