Charles H. Townes Quotes

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

Charles H. Townes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: physicist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 28, 1915 - January 27, 2015

Topics

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A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

Robert Browning

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The expressive body is not literal; it's very primal, and that's what I feel when I make the best of my work. It's coming from a primal place rather than an intellectual place.

Michael Leunig

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Terror threats to the U.S. homeland have reached unprecedented levels.

Michael McCaul

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As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

Jordan Peterson

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I opened my first bar that I owned in 1989. The first one I ever owned was in downtown St. Louis.

Jon Taffer

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I was blessed with a strong arm and a weak mind.

Dizzy Dean

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I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.

Dennis Farina

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Movies usually find me, but I'm open to anything.

Dennis Quaid

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If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing old jokes!' But bands do it all the time.

Chris Hardwick

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It would be a big mistake to think that Chekhov was a natural, that he did not have to work for his effects and singular style.

Clive Sinclair

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I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling.

Woody Harrelson

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