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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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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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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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Actually, my wine was served at the White House twice. Reagan must have been asleep when he ordered it.
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I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.
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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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As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.
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It's time to stop spending money we don't have and balance the budget.
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
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A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't see is the xylem and the phloem and the pollen and the thousands of generations of breeding and the billions of years before that. All of that is only available to the scientists.
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You see the same profile of difficulty among the educated Bostonian adults, and the going-to-school Bostonian kids, and the adults and children in the Amazon. The problems that were hard for them were hard for us.
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We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.
