Christian de Duve Quotes

Overcrowded cities are spawning increasingly lawless suburbs. Waste is accumulating in and around them, straining the capacity to deal with it.

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• Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Easy

• If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Challenge

• I'm no producer's kid.

  

  Tanya Fischer
  • Kid
  • Producer

• I don't think there is much American music.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • American
  • Think

• Gags die, humor doesn't.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Die
  • Humor

• I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Family
  • Farmers
  • Budhana

• I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Power
  • Sky
  • Stars

• Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Practice
  • Self
  • Meditation

• There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Health

• I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Life
  • America
  • Professional

• Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • You
  • Never
  • Flowers

• I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Up
  • Cinema
  • Watching

• Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Up
  • School
  • Knowledge

• You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Fear

• Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Life
  • Player
  • Better

• In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Feeling

• I would love to be an amazing singer. I take voice lessons. It's good to have as a dancer - to be able to sing and act, too, because for a Broadway show or musical, you have to be able to do everything.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Amazing
  • Voice
  • Act

• You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Doubt

• Those weeks before diagnosis can be among the most torturous times. There is a reason you're called a patient once the plastic bracelet goes on.

  

  David Rakoff

• Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .

  

  Jeff Greenfield
  • Time

• I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Science

• Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart. Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Brain

• The idea of having to match a pair of socks to your tie or to your pants just doesn't make any sense to me... With boots, you don't have to worry about it. Nobody sees your socks.

  

  Markwayne Mullin
  • Worry

• Overcrowded cities are spawning increasingly lawless suburbs. Waste is accumulating in and around them, straining the capacity to deal with it.

  

  Christian de Duve