Christian de Duve Quotes
We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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I'm a vegetarian who doesn't like eggplant parmesan. Isn't that awful? I'm also sick of portobello mushrooms. People are like, 'A vegetarian's coming to dinner,' so they serve those.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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Our high school didn't have a crew team - we started the crew team.
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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When you walk off the stage, I think the end point is that you enjoyed yourself. I get to say that almost every time - either I made a few new fans or something resonated.
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I've got an awful memory, and I can't read or write, but you can read me a script once or twice, and I've got it.
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Football goes fast but it can go quickly in both directions.
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I think we as a society, a global community, we as governments, need to figure out ways to combat ISIS, not just as a military force but as an idea.
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The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil.
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We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.