24 quotes found
“Anger is so constructive.”
“How had it come to this? My life was in CHAOS!”
“Medical physics is an applied area of physics.”
“There's something cool about being a stealth classic.”
“Pattaya is what the end of civilization will look like.”
“Humor without sadness underneath it feels cheap and aggressive.”
“The thing about Smart People is that they seem like Crazy people to Dumb people!”
“I put on some make-up, turn on the 8-track, and I'm pulling the wig down from the shelf - suddenly I'm Miss Punk Rock Star of Stage and Screen and I ain't ever turning back!”
“In rock and roll, homosexuality was accepted, but it was less cool to say it.”
“Growing up, it was uncool to admit that your family had any money. And then, instantly, money was cool. In Reagan's parlance, it was about freedom of the individual, which was freedom to be greedy....”
“It's cool when frat boys say, 'Yeah, 'Hedwig!' I'd like to see that same thing happen with 'Shortbus.'”
“My mom was a little weepy. My dad was very logical about it. Once they realized you can't change, they wanted to know that you can be happy and be gay. Once they realized that, they were very cool ...”
“Some people go off to an ashram or they, you know, have a midlife crisis and buy a sports car. For me, I do 'Hedwig,' and I see it's a midlife crisis maybe, and I see what's next. And it's a good t...”
“When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my knowledge of nuclear physics.”
“Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.”
“Medical physicists work in cooperation with doctors. A few medical physicists devote their time to research and teaching. A few get involved with administrative duties.”
“I am sure that I have been much more useful to society as a medical physicist.”
“I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.”
“I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.”
“There are now over 5,000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.”
“The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed...”
“I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.”
