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I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory. ↗

— Marie Curie

#be kind #dark #day #dress #enough

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation. ↗

— Ann Curry

#eventually #father #generation #hopefully #i

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#best #doubt #give #himself #intellectual

I try to do stories that make a difference - stories that affect the way people think, stories that people need to hear - and usually what drives me is to do stories about people who have no voice, people who have no political power, people who are overlooked by society. ↗

— Ann Curry

#affect #difference #drives #hear #i

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it. ↗

— Catie Curtis

#day #eight #enough #feels #five

On the Internet, news is consumed a la carte. If someone shows up on the main page of a website and doesn't see anything of interest, they leave. This negatively impacts ad revenues. The solution on the Internet is to pack news websites full of things that will draw people in, regardless of whether they are news or not. ↗

— Drew Curtis

#anything #carte #consumed #draw #full

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge. ↗

— George William Curtis

#certain #expensive #income #indulge #luxury

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar! ↗

— Iris Dement

#give #guitar #i #really #though

My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#difficult #emotionally #everything #evolved #evolving

In 2002, having spent more than three years in one residence for the first time in my life, I got called for jury duty. I show up on time, ready to serve. When we get to the voir dire, the lawyer says to me, “I see you’re an astrophysicist. What’s that?” I answer, “Astrophysics is the laws of physics, applied to the universe—the Big Bang, black holes, that sort of thing.” Then he asks, “What do you teach at Princeton?” and I say, “I teach a class on the evaluation of evidence and the relative unreliability of eyewitness testimony.” Five minutes later, I’m on the street. A few years later, jury duty again. The judge states that the defendant is charged with possession of 1,700 milligrams of cocaine. It was found on his body, he was arrested, and he is now on trial. This time, after the Q&A is over, the judge asks us whether there are any questions we’d like to ask the court, and I say, “Yes, Your Honor. Why did you say he was in possession of 1,700 milligrams of cocaine? That equals 1.7 grams. The ‘thousand’ cancels with the ‘milli-’ and you get 1.7 grams, which is less than the weight of a dime.” Again I’m out on the street. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#astrophysics #eyewitness #jury-duty #science #universe