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Edward Appleton Quotes

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Edward Appleton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: english
Birth: September 6, 1892 - April 21, 1965

Topics

Mind Language Long Understand Opera

I have always said that I cannot allow the child within me to die. It's kept me alive.

Child Me Die Alive Said Within

I think, as a woman, you've got to make so many sacrifices.

Woman Think You Got Make I Think

What's really great about Buddhism is its rational, informal quality. Coming from my experience of growing up a Catholic, I found Buddhism to be refreshingly easygoing and forgiving.

Great Experience Quality Growing Up

When I started out in the duck-call business, my college buddies would come in and say, 'Robertson, you have a college degree. What are you doing?' Then they drove away saying, 'What an idiot!' Thirty-five years later, they're saying, 'The sucker's a genius!'

Business College Saying Genius Doing

The movie portrayed me as this person who cussed every 10 seconds, and I don't cuss like that.

Me Person Who Like Seconds Movie

In Saudi Arabia - recognized as one of the worst violators of women's rights - women outnumber men on university campuses and yet are treated like minors who need a male guardian's permission to do the most basic things.

Women Men Worst Need University

Since I retired, I very much enjoy watching Serena Williams play. While I was playing, she was one of the toughest players I ever faced. Her ground strokes are so solid, her serve is one of the most powerful in women's tennis, and mentally she is just so strong.

Women Strong Enjoy Powerful Play

America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.

Mohamed El-Erian

Strength Better America Country Need

It always excites me to meet new family members. I'd like to meet them all someday.

Family Me New Meet Always Someday

I think I'm attracted to subjects that I'm afraid of. It's a way to approach things I am afraid of, things that bring fear in my heart, and try to understand them, try to deal with them. It's like demons. I try to approach it and understand it... I'm just visiting fears.

Denis Villeneuve

Fear Heart I Am Think Demons Way

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.

Annie Leibovitz

I Am People Landscape Pictures Now

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Flower Creative Seed Spark Never

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