Study Quotes - Page 19

• My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.

  Bram Cohen

  Father, School, Class

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• Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.

  Clayton Christensen

  Morning, Children, Home

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• I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.

  Clayton Christensen

  Book, Earth, My Family

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• The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts.

  Nadia Ali

  Girl, Art, Giving

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• To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely important to find out if there are side effects. We should also find out what are the effects on fine motor skills and reaction time. These are all important questions that should be assessed.

  Dale Archer

  Skills, Important, Done

  "In the Cockpit, on Antidepressants: A Doctor Weighs In" by Karlie Pouliot, www.foxnews.com. April 02, 2010.

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• I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the 'The New York Times' and 'The Washington Post' and other newspapers from publishing papers that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.

  Floyd Abrams

  New York, Block, War

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

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• Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Organization, People, Corporations

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• Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old.

  Sharon Creech

  Children, Real, Philosophical

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• When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or 'Rebel Without a Cause' or 'Dead Poet's Society,' they all had that timeless feel. None of them were completely married to the details of their age. They felt timeless in their treatment of it. That's what made them resonate with me.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Age, Rebel, Details

  "Stephen Chbosky talks “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, Blu-ray extras, and his favorite teen films". Interview with Scott Neumyer, www.ifc.com. February 13, 2012.

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• I was an international studies major.

  Anna Chlumsky

  International, Majors

  "'Veep's' Anna Chlumsky on politics and her 'My Girl' fame". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.cnn.com. April 27, 2012.

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• That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.

  Elliott Carter

  Writing, Style, Pieces

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• As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Mistake, Chinese, Literature

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• The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.

  Francis Crick

  Cells, Balance, Doe

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• A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein by mutations of the type discussed here.

  Francis Crick

  Ideas, Mutation, Finals

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• The Patriotic Millionaires campaign, pulled together quickly by the Agenda Project in New York City, just happens to appear on the same day as a new study from the Center for Responsive Politics revealing that half of the members of the House and the Senate are millionaires.

  Joe Conason

  New York, Patriotic, Cities

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• I'm not going to tell you the movies, but I remember getting halfway through the thing and everything sort of tunnel-visioned on me and I couldn't read the script anymore. I looked at the people and I just turned and ran out in a cold sweat. It took me about a year to study it and feel comfortable going in and reading for people.

  John Corbett

  Reading, Tunnels, Years

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• When I was a kid, 'Scooby Doo' was, hands down, my favorite cartoon. Even when I was older, when I was in college studying and I needed to tune out for a while, I'd watch 'Scooby Doo.

  Linda Cardellini

  Kids, College, Hands

  "Linda Cardellini on Freaks And Geeks, ER, and homewrecking". Interview with Claire Zulkey, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2013.

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• I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

  Ricky Jay

  Kids, Parent, Lessons

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• I was born in Messina, Sicily. I stayed there until I was 18 and finished my studies.

  Maria Grazia Cucinotta

  Born, Finished

  The Scene Interview, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2006.

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• I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Body, Want, Donate

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• We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship.

  Salvatore J. Cordileone

  Mother, Children, Father

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• Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it.

  Tucker Carlson

  People, Watches, Tvs

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• By the time I had finished my studies at St. Paul's School, I knew I wanted to be an actor.

  Alexis Denisof

  School, Actors, Wanted

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 11, 2003.

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• When I go back into education, I'm going to do business studies.

  Jourdan Dunn

  "Why are the catwalks so white?". Interview With Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• I'm always studying something or trying to learn something, keep myself creatively occupied, because I think that energy can get kind of destructive if it doesn't have somewhere to go.

  Rosemarie DeWitt

  Thinking, Trying, Energy

  "The Features Of Rosemarie DeWitt". Interview with Amanda Mae Meyncke, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 27, 2012.

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