32 Quotes About Berkeley
- Author Francesca Lia Block
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I will go to campus alone dressed in antique silk slips and beat-up cowboy boots and gypsy beads, and I will study poetry. I will sit on the edge of the fountain in the plaza and write.
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- Author Aspen Matis
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The structure crouched like a great stone tiger on a slope of the East Bay, resting on the cliffside with calm grace.
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- Author Bucky Sinister
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Maximum Rocknrolldidn't have a map section.How was I supposed to knowthat Berkeley was not a neighborhood of San Francisco?
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- Author Luis W. Alvarez
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There's a limit beyond which one cannot progress. The differences between the limiting abilities of those on successively higher steps of the pyramid are enormous. I have not seen described anywhere the shock a talented man experiences when he finds, late in his academic life, that there are others enormously more talented than he. I have personally seen more tears shed by grown men and women over this discovery than I would have believed possible.
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- Author Bryce S. DeWitt
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Cecile was teaching in Berkeley and I was [at Livermore]. He probably had, could have had, some influence on Teller, [for] Teller was quite generous in allowing me one whole semester off to be at Berkeley to work on something and also a semester off at the Institute for Advanced Study. Then I won the Gravity Research Foundation first prize.
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- Author Mike Klepper
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Observing a candidate's supporters is crucial. The candidates themselves are slick and polished. Their supporters aren't, so their words and actions are far easier to unravel. The Berkeley riots at Milo Yiannopoulos' attempted speech told me all I needed to know about Hillary.
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- Author Joey Lawsin
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Human-like species will not exist elsewhere in the universe, unless they live exactly in an earth-like environment.
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- Author Jad Abumrad
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Therein lies the rub of a place like Berkeley Bowl. You get seduced by an 11-pound apple that turns out to be a fake watermelon with an anus.
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- Author Thomas Pynchon
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Are you the man who reads phone books?
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