I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGONThe great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.
More Jeff Bezos Quotes
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I read to make myself feel awake.
GEORGE SAUNDERS -
Tune your television to any channel it doesn’t receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.
BILL BRYSON -
The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
AIMEE MULLINS -
After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW -
Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.
T. S. ELIOT -
When you look at art made by other people, you see what you need to see in it.
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI -
I’m not a nice girl; I’m a photographer. (On being told by a Federal Art Project official, after she photographed the Bowery, that a nice girl should not go into such neighborhoods )
BERENICE ABBOTT -
I sense that conservatives have largely already tuned out to the coming elections, after six years of burgeoning federal spending and inaction on key issues, such as immigration.
BOB BARR -
You were enough then and you are enough now. Your pain never defined you, and never will.
TAJ ARORA -
Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.
TOM WAITS -
Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well– here is the truth– you have to talk yourself out of it.
CHRIS CLEAVE -
Do you think anybody knows that I’m Irish?
NIALL HORAN -
I don’t miss my prayers and I don’t miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.
RUSSELL SIMMONS -
You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH -
My message is believe in yourself. Have courage in your capacity. Listen to your inner voice. And then the critical component of all this is, do the work.
BRAD WILLIS