Christian de Duve Quotes
In spite of the advances of medicine, deathly epidemics are more menacing than ever before.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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My partner has to have good sized bones.
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Rejuvenation of younger players should be the job of the Indonesian Badminton Association. But local competitions will help identify new talent.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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Music is a language.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
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Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good.
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I wrote my first textbook in 1970. It was called 'The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy,' and over the years, many students told me that they enjoyed reading it because there were so many stories in there; often just a paragraph or a page of something that happened in a group session.
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.
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I love wine tasting in Napa. I don't have a huge collection, but the bottles I do have are special.
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I never expected that I'd be doing as many jobs as I did. I know everybody says that, but I thought I'd be sat in my pants waiting for someone to ring me. Then maybe within five years I might get something.
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At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
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Emotions were never the most important thing when I was at school; it was all about academics and this constant performance of pretending that you're okay and getting on with life.
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Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.
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I've got two daughters, and it's impossible for me to say one of them is a favorite.
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In spite of the advances of medicine, deathly epidemics are more menacing than ever before.
