Mark Walport Quotes
One has to understand the functioning of the normal brain before studying the badly malfunctioning brain.Mark Walport
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
Camilo Villegas -
I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.
Gary Numan -
My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
Kapil Sibal -
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
Walt Whitman -
The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
Ramsey Clark -
Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
Oliver North
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People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.
Sade Adu -
From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
Ueli Gegenschatz -
A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
Adam Cohen -
I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.
Felicity Kendal -
War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
Carl von Clausewitz -
I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.
Laura Bush
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
Maeve Binchy -
Every education law should be based around the question, 'Is this good for children?' And it's not.
Brown Campbell -
This is America, not a banana republic.
Vincent Bugliosi -
My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.
Yami Gautam -
When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, 'Dallas' was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from 'Step By Step' in the '90s.
Patrick Duffy -
As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
Daniel Breaker
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I think... I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.
Neil Gaiman -
We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.
Carlos Slim -
You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the political opponents and the media.
Peer Steinbruck -
There was a glamorous Nick-and-Nora element to my parents. If you remove one from the other, you're left with neither. But parents are parents.
Christopher Buckley -
My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.
Francesca Annis -
One has to understand the functioning of the normal brain before studying the badly malfunctioning brain.
Mark Walport