Christian de Duve Quotes
My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of the country was still half French and half Flemish.Christian de Duve
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
Gary Hamel -
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson -
In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
Randy Lerner -
Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
Rabindranath Maharaj -
Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
Kaitlin Olson -
Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
Natalie Merchant
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
Laura Moser -
If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
Victoria Osteen -
Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
Malcolm McDowell -
My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
Kate Bosworth -
It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
Zooey Deschanel -
You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
Viggo Mortensen
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Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.
Jack Canfield -
I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.
Madchen Amick -
I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
Irving Stone -
A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
Val McDermid -
I love to watch old movies when I get time off.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
Carlos Fuentes
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I know that song writing is probably the most mystical of the things that I do, in a sense that I'm not sure where it came from or how it started. It's something that I just knew how to do. It's something that just happens.
Paul Williams The Temptations -
Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
Ovid -
There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.
Jose Saramago -
My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of the country was still half French and half Flemish.
Christian de Duve