I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question.
Charles H. Townes
Recitation: by Male by Female
Mess up and draft somebody at my position, because you are going to sit around and watch him sit the bench. That's always been my mentality. I see it as a challenge.
Andrew Whitworth
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William Dalrymple called me a war junkie in his silly book. No, I don't have a desire for it. I'm appalled and infuriated by it.
Robert Fisk
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I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other.
Julia Leigh
PeopleTryingSkinGoWayOut
Women have always been incredible. They've always been amazing.
Jordan Gavaris
WomenAmazingAlwaysBeenIncredible
In Cuba, where Wi-Fi is both slow and terrible, you will be an emissary from the future, a hint of the degeneracy to come. You're a full-on mainlining internet junkie with the world's uproar piped into your head 24/7, your emotional landscape terraformed and buffeted by whatever some narcissist just posted on Instagram or some windbag on Twitter.
Antonio Garcia Martinez
FutureWorldSlowInternetLandscape
If you are somebody who has a disease, you are not complaining when someone starts to do work for you. That is your hope.
Anne Wojcicki
WorkHopeSomeoneYouComplaining
Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
EvolutionTrueMoreTheorySystem
We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.
Peter Benchley
FearJustFablesStoriesOurChat
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
Thomas Fuller
LovePresenceAbsenceSharpens
While Congressional members face the political costs of debate on military action, our service members bear the human costs of those decisions. And if we choose to avoid debate, avoid accountability, avoid a hard decision, how can we demand that our military willingly sacrifice their very lives?
Tim Kaine
ServiceDecisionSacrificeAction
In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the existence of the problems I faced as a black foster child from a dysfunctional and badly broken home.
Nikki Grimes
HomeMirrorBrokenChildMeBlack
'Drown' was always a hybrid book. It's connected stories - partially a story collection but partially a novel. I always wanted the reader to decide which genre they thought the book belonged to more - story, novel, neither, both.
Junot Diaz
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