#orator

I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

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Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

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It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

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If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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It was difficult every ten days having a new director. I'm a real collaborator and, as an actor, I want to be directed. It's hard for me to shift gears. ↗

— Jeanne Tripplehorn

#collaborator #days #difficult #directed #director

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist. ↗

— Mike Gordon

#collaborators #great #history #lot #lyricist

Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. ↗

— Todd Akin

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A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

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