Christian de Duve Quotes
When, in 1949, I decided to join the little band of early explorers who had followed Albert Claude in his pioneering expeditions, electron microscopy was still in its infancy.
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When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.
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My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
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Before competition, I start to question things. I don't know why it happens, but you've got to control it so you don't get too far out of the race.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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I lost my confidence.
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Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
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If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are just a little kid.
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In another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer.
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Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.
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I shake hands on the first date.
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I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of the traditionally progressive or democratic constituents.
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I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.
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Honestly, I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense, but I always liked the kind of big questions.
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When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis.
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I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.
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When, in 1949, I decided to join the little band of early explorers who had followed Albert Claude in his pioneering expeditions, electron microscopy was still in its infancy.
