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.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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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.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.
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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.
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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.
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I love to watch old movies when I get time off.
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Put the car away; when life fails What's the good of going to Wales? Here am I, here are you: But what does it mean? What are we going to do?
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If I wrote a memoir, it would be like 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.'
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I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.
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There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard.
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I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.
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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.
