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• Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent my slightly amateur approach in physics, combined with much practical experience, was an asset.

  Simon van der Meer

  Feelings, Able, Fields

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• Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

  Anne Rice

  Kings, Book, Reading

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• I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.

  Robert Wyatt

  Important, Band, Roger

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• The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.

  Eliot Engel

  Country, Numbers, Needs

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• Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Ideas, Different, Hiv

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• I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

  Idris Elba

  Cousin, Talking, Nurse

  "The god in Idris Elba". Interview with Afua Hirsch, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Zero, People, Tolerance

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• Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.

  Kenichi Fukui

  Real, Unity, Earth

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• I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Support, Immigration, Reform

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• Everyone has the right to live in a great place. More importantly, everyone has the right to contribute to making the place where they already live great.

  Fred Kent

  Life, Greatness, Rights

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• I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

  Steven Weinberg

  Thinking, Historical, Religion

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• Seeking fortunes in America led to Germany losing people, and the American continent received many people whose contributions are particularly clear in the agricultural and technical fields.

  Julius Streicher

  Agriculture, America, People

  "Der Stürmer" Newspaper, 1944.

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• I feel good about the work I do on Survivor and am proud of my contribution.

  Jeff Probst

  Feel Good, Proud, Survivor

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• Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?

  Adam Grant

  Appreciation, Time, Worry

  Adam Grant (2013). “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success”, p.12, Penguin

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• It's very easy for me to thank everyone for the incredible contribution they've made to my life.

  David Geffen

  Incredibles, Easy, Economy

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• I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.

  Halle Berry

  Tiny, Humans, Knows

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• I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Sight, Becoming

  Judy Chicago, Edward Lucie-Smith (1999). “Women and Art: Contested Territory”, Watson-Guptill Publications

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• The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Architecture, Remember, Egyptian

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

  Terry Riley

  Gdp, Musical, Western Music

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• I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Generations, Immortality

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• I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.

  Ted Nelson

  Intellectual, Fields, Filmmaker

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• I'm an actor, that's my contribution.

  Glenn Close

  Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated.

  Jerome Isaac Friedman

  Effort, Energy, Groups

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• The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.

  James L. Buckley

  Media, Campaigns, Vote

  James L. Buckley (2010). “Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State”, p.244, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same.

  Jerry Brown

  Sacrifice, Cutting, Reality

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