Irwin M. Jacobs Quotes

While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.

Irwin M. Jacobs

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I start every morning at 7 or 7:30 in the same place - my little office where it's dark and cozy - with a cup of the same really strong black coffee. It's my little cocoon. There's no phone or fax or Internet. And no music.

John Grisham

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That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time.

Michael Baden

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Every actor I've worked with I want to work with again.

Spike Jonze

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I think every player listens out for his name being sung and it's something I really enjoy.

Steven Gerrard

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Mosquito control in the United States is very much a local and state activity. Some states have excellent programs, other states not so much. It's one of the reasons it's so urgent to identify and spread best practices to try and track and reduce mosquito populations.

Tom Frieden

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I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway.'

Rita Rudner

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We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.

Ronald Reagan

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Every sponsor I've had has been something that fit my lifestyle, fit my personality.

Michael Phelps

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True leadership knows not to go to extremes but knows how to confront and appreciate challenges.

Lubna Olayan

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I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss.

Donald E. Westlake

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During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and to preserve capitalism through regulation and a social safety net.

Noah Feldman

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It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.

Lionel Blue

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