Chris LeDoux Quotes
And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.
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There are very few fundamental shifts in global infrastructure that can happen in our life times. The financial infrastructure is one of them, and the Blockchain is changing the way we think about the transfer of value.
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There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
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As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
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Music is very powerful and can make you feel whatever it is. If you listen to gospel, you're going to feel thankful, and you're going to want to call up people that you hate and tell them that you love them. When you listen to sexual music, it gets you in the mood.
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Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
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One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.
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We've got to stop pandering and start leading.
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Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.
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In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
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God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.
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I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.
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I never go to Vancouver without stopping by Thomas Haas' shop for the best chocolate in North America. A former chef patissier at Daniel, he returned to his hometown and created a top quality brand by sticking to his passion.
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We crossed the Himalayas in less than two minutes, and then you realise, 'Oh My God, within an hour and a half, we have gone around the whole planet.'
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In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.
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The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
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A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.
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Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
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'Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore -Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'
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Pilar sat squeezed up against the window and thought how very odd the English smelt.
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I remember the day we found the gene for the inter-species signaling molecule like it was yesterday. We got the gene, and we plugged it into a database. And we immediately saw that this gene was in an amazing number of species of bacteria. It was a huge moment of realization.
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I idolize Gene Hackman. He is not a natural star, not an incandescent personality like Jack Nicholson, but he makes luminous the problems of being an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation.
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I've always had a strong love and a sense of care for kids. And the one thing is evident and is so true - the kids are our future.
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Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this anxiety at a distance by looking at the many round about who are related to him as kin and friends, but the anxiety is still there, nevertheless, and one hardly dares think of how he would feel if all this were taken away.
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And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.
