Mark Pagel Quotes
Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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I'm very lucky. I had a great childhood.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
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Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'
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There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
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Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.
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There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'
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And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.
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I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.
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When all you've done is work toward being a professional athlete, and then you injure yourself, and you know that you're going to be out for a while, it's gut-wrenching. It almost feels like your life is over because that's all you've ever worked for.
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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America will not be held hostage to nuclear blackmail. We will not allow American cities to be threatened with destruction. And we will not allow a regime that chants 'Death to America' to gain access to the most deadly weapons on Earth.
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When I was competing, I would run daily 20 kilometers, and in addition to that, I'd put in many hours of fighting and sparring. That's why I was always able to keep the speed in the ring. I would train so hard that sometimes it was not only hard to stand up, but it would also be hard to lay down.
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Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.
