Christian de Duve Quotes
Our investigations were very fruitful. They led to the discovery of a new cell part, the lysosome, which received its name in 1955, and later of yet another organelle, the peroxisome.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.
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Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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I am the protector of all lives. I am present even before the creation. I am prime God.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
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I don't read books.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art.
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As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.
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Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.
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I once told Tommy Smothers, 'If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the rest of my life would be easy.'
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My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.
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I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.
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I really doubt whether evolution ever works, how then come Mothers have only two hands.
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I lived in an apartment near Wrigley Field.
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When I got to the stadium, one of my biggest things was watching video of hitters.
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In the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "No lie will last forever." We have to work at removing lies from our own hearts. And on the national level, we do this not because we blame our country, but because we love it.
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The equality of play was a surprise-it was the most competitive race in the seven-year history of MLS.
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Our investigations were very fruitful. They led to the discovery of a new cell part, the lysosome, which received its name in 1955, and later of yet another organelle, the peroxisome.
