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.Christian de Duve
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
Karolina Kurkova -
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.
Salman Rushdie -
We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
Sam Brownback -
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.
Zendaya -
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.
Dalai Lama -
I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
Damian Lewis
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
Abu Bakr -
There's more to life than cheek bones.
Kate Winslet -
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.
Maddie Ziegler -
I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
Daniel Berrigan -
But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
Fisher Stevens -
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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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.
Ferran Adria -
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?'
Vicki Lawrence -
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.
Jack McBrayer -
There is a way to share an insight into your personal life without being classless, which is what I'm trying to do.
Sam Smith -
I have struggled with identity all my life. It's not like something that just happened last week.
Caitlyn Jenner -
There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.
Karen Kain
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I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?
Penelope Wilton -
I think the bullpen is always a possibility for anyone, but that's not where I plan on being.
Matt Cain -
The level of backlash [for the True Detective] was kind of fascinating and not fully shocking because I know what the world of the internet is and how it's a platform to project their greatest anger and frustrations. But it's also a place where people can wax lyrical and be effusive in their glowing fondness of something.
Colin Farrell -
[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.
C. S. Lewis -
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.
Christian de Duve