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"Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today."
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"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something."
"I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick."
"I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different."
"Imperialism was genuinely popular among Athenians who would expect to share in its profits, even if only indirectly and collectively, and not to have to bear its burdens."
"The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers."
"The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it."
"I was popular. I wasn't the most popular. But I definitely held my own."
"I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound."
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"Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way."
"Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics."
"For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone."
"Now that I near 80, I realize with wistful pleasure that on many occasions I was 10, 20, 40, even 50 years ahead of my time."
"There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable."
"A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale."
"The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market."
"An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something."
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