Christian de Duve Quotes

I knew the lysosomes and peroxisomes because I had discovered them; I knew the mitochondria because I was interested in them. I knew the membrane system because my friend, George Palade, had worked on that.

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• If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Patience
  • Strength
  • Welcome

• My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • World
  • Light
  • Spirit

• Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • World
  • Effect
  • Buddhism

• Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Poetry

• I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Old

• When you're young, you're stupid.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • You
  • Stupid
  • Young

• We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Blow

• A house divided against itself cannot stand.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • House
  • Stand
  • Divided

• As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
  • Kid
  • Excited

• I actually started in comedy, but then after 'Deadwood' I started concentrating on the dramas more. But then I just got tired for raping and killing and figured, 'It's time to do another comedy.'

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Time
  • Comedy
  • Tired

• I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Good
  • Different
  • School

• I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Always
  • Struggles
  • Screenwriting

• The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Incompetence
  • Utter

• Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Wife
  • Neighbor
  • Others

• No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Me
  • Books
  • Certainly

• Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Rest
  • Company
  • Oil

• I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Poets
  • Influenced
  • Painters

• Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from 'hurry sickness.' Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Journey

• I look pretty nondescript. I don't go out of my way to... I don't express my personality with my clothes, with my car or my, you know, house. I express with my personality; so as far as what I wear - I don't really care about that.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Pretty
  • House
  • Car

• I prefer to live in my own little bubble of my own reality.

  

  Lauren Lee Smith
  • Live
  • Reality

• American values, or Americanism, refers to what I call the 'American Trinity': 'Liberty,' 'In God We Trust,' and 'E Pluribus Unum' ('Out of Many, One'), the three values that appear on all American coins.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • God
  • American
  • Trust

• Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Chance
  • Try
  • Risks

• Dream impossible dreams. When those dreams come true, make the next ones more impossible.

  

  Urijah Christopher Faber
  • True
  • Dream
  • Impossible

• I knew the lysosomes and peroxisomes because I had discovered them; I knew the mitochondria because I was interested in them. I knew the membrane system because my friend, George Palade, had worked on that.

  

  Christian de Duve
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