Mark Walport Quotes
Science can tell us what can be done in principle, but it is then a matter for public debate as to what should be done. And ultimately, it is a role for politicians to decide the answers.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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My father was a lawyer.
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I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
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Iran doesn't need one centrifuge. Canada has nuclear energy. Spain has nuclear energy. Switzerland has nuclear energy, and they don't enrich uranium. You don't need to enrich uranium in order to use nuclear energy. You enrich uranium in order to produce a bomb.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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The way I see it, any attention I get, for whatever reason, just draws more eyes to the causes that I believe in.
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God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.
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I think there are many who would like to be saved but have been presented the faulty idea that repentance is turning from sin and therefore they are convinced that they cannot be saved. Oh, if we would only make salvation plain and explain to men that we are not saved by doing anything; rather we are saved by trusting in what Jesus has already done.
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I've taken thousands of shots in the corner. It's all mental. That's all it comes down to, is to be ready, wait for your opportunity, and execute.
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After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.
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Science can tell us what can be done in principle, but it is then a matter for public debate as to what should be done. And ultimately, it is a role for politicians to decide the answers.
