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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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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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'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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The system of creating opportunities for those who were by law excluded, you've got to do that. But you mustn't create a perception that the process is devoid of competitiveness... devoid of building a world class, sustainable black business community.
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New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.
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When there's anything to steal, I steal
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The secret of getting on the shortlist is doing your best work fearlessly for a long time before you get on the list.
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Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
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Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.
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In spite of the advances of medicine, deathly epidemics are more menacing than ever before.
