Christian de Duve Quotes
What I was concerned with was life: what are the major features that are common to all living organisms that subtly define life. So I looked at the whole problem as a chemist, as a biochemist, and as a molecular biologist.
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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I have a phone obsession. It's really hard on set sometimes because I'll be checking Instagram, and then I have to remember, 'Oh, crap, I have to shoot a scene or rehearse.' Every now and then, I have to turn it off and live my life.
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When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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There's more to life than cheek bones.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
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I feel like my life has been very serendipitous and really kind of humorous. Everything that's happened to me has been like an, 'Omigod, are you kidding me?'
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I think that I, Jack McBrayer, am somewhat of a people pleaser, and I do enjoy being good at my job. But I would never endanger my life with gullibility or naivete.
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There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
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I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.
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I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.
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Sleep is over-rated. When you're creating, travelling, and having the best time of your life the last thing on your mind is sleep.
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I think morality is more important than ever before. As we gain more power, the question of what we do with it becomes more and more crucial, and we are very close to really having divine powers of creation and destruction. The future of the entire ecological system and the future of the whole of life is really now in our hands. And what to do with it is an ethical question and also a scientific question.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.
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What I was concerned with was life: what are the major features that are common to all living organisms that subtly define life. So I looked at the whole problem as a chemist, as a biochemist, and as a molecular biologist.
