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“I've always been known for bold flavors and rustic cooking, but there is another side to me. As you evolve as a cook, you understand life and how serious it is. There comes a point where there's got to be a better balance.”

Sides Known Serious Balance Cooking Evolve Cooks Flavor Rustic

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“...I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various uplifting activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism.”

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Book:Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production

Source: Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production

“When I was young, Stephen Hawking wasn't the world's most famous physicist. The fame didn't arrive until the publication of "A Brief History of Time," by which time I was in my late teens. When I was a child, he was well known among physicists, but they are a fairly select, serious bunch, not much given to celebrity idolizing.”

World Wells Children Young Given Known Serious Fame Late Bunch Teens Well Known Physicist Select Publication

Author:Stephen Hawking

“It is well known that we fight in God's cause... but unless God helps us by a miracle the English, who have faster and handier ships than ours, and many more long-range guns, and who know their advantage just as well as we do, will never close with us at all, but stand aloof and knock us to pieces with their culverins, without our being able to do them any serious hurt. So we are sailing against England in the confident hope of a miracle.”

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Author:Nicholas Rodger

“I was fuzzy on the details, but I knew the basic outline. I knew how I wanted to be, it was simply a question of being who I wanted to be.I thought I had had it all figured out before. I'd had the plan perfectly clear in my head. I wasn't going to cross into thirty without the triple crown in hand: serious boyfriend, career, and great friends..It was time to accept that maybe, just maybe, I didn't have to have it all figured out by the time I turned thirty. Maybe I could just work on me, and see what else fell into place.I was pretty sure that was otherwise known as living.”

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Author:Megan Crane

“Education Research: This is a process whereby serious educators discover knowledge that is well known to everybody, and has been for several centuries. Its principal characteristic is that no one pays any attention to it.”

Wells Has Beens Process Pay Attention Known Century Serious Research Characteristics Principal Well Known Educator

Book:The school book: for people who want to know what all the hollering is about

Source: The school book: for people who want to know what all the hollering is about

“Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.”

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Author:B. F. Skinner

“Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.”

Results Known Serious Research Optimist

Author:Alex Haley