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I became a conservative for the first dozen years of my professional life in Berkeley, Calif., and it was a reaction against political correctness, so I get it.

~David Brock

Topics: Against Became Berkeley Conservative Correctness Dozen First Get Life Political Political Correctness Professional Professional Life Reaction Years

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The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence.

~David Gross

Topics: Berkeley Early Experimental Graduate Impotence Period Started Studies Supremacy Theoretical Were 1960S

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When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the motion of the weak nuclear force, radiation. But it hit a brick wall with the strong interaction, the binding force.

~David Gross

Topics: Berkeley Binding Brick Calculate Could Describe Dynamics Field Force Framework Hit Interaction Motion Nuclear Quantum Radiation Roughly Strong Theory Wall Weak

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The great children's author and illustrator Shirley Hughes marks her 90th birthday by appearing as Michael Berkeley's guest in 'Private Passions'.

~David Hepworth

Topics: Appearing Author Berkeley Birthday Children Great Guest Her Hughes Illustrator Marks Michael Passions Private Shirley

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As a sociolinguist, I want to know how cultural differences affect the ways people talk and listen. My research method, inspired by the work of Robin Lakoff and John Gumperz of the University of California at Berkeley, is sociolinguistic microanalysis. I tape-record and transcribe naturally occurring conversations.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Affect Berkeley California Conversations Cultural Differences How Inspired John Know Listen Method Naturally People Research Robin Talk University University Of California Want Ways Work

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My first job was at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati, my second job was at a pharmaceutical company in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. My third job was at Palmolive. And I realized, three jobs in three years, maybe it wasn't the job. It had to be me.

~Dee Rees

Topics: Berkeley Cincinnati Company First First Job Gamble Had Heights Jersey Job Jobs Maybe Me New New Jersey Pharmaceutical Realized Second Third Three Years

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Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.'

~Douglas Brinkley

Topics: Album Became Berkeley California First Generation Having He His Kind Lost Native New New Yorker Recorded Riots Space Student Tapestry Weather Yorker

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I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.

~Douglass North

Topics: Anybody Because Berkeley Did Feeling Go Graduated Had Hoped Joined Law Law School Marine Merchant School Started Strong Strong Feeling Want War

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Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

~Eric S. Raymond

Topics: Against Berkeley Corporate Empires Hackers Liked Rebels See Soulless Themselves

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I used to go and cop stacks of blanks CDs and sit there and burn copies of my mixtapes and print up my own mixtape covers and post up in downtown Oakland and Telegraph in Berkeley and literally was selling my mixtapes for five bucks, hand-to-hand.

~G-Eazy

Topics: Berkeley Blanks Bucks Burn Cop Copies Covers Downtown Five Go Literally My Own Oakland Own Post Print Selling Sit Telegraph Up Used Cds

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