Bill Drayton Quotes

Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.

Bill Drayton

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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

Karl Lagerfeld
- People
- Me
- Collection
Cancer is really a DNA disease... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.

Sam Kean
- Good
- Pretty
- Growing
I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.

Lalla Ward
- Time
- Different
- Writing
I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

Natasha Lyonne
- Time
- Remember
- Black
My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.

Rainn Wilson
- Women
- Happy
- Laugh
The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.

Vikram Patel
- People
- Life
- World