Frederick Sanger Quotes
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Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.
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If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
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We need a NASA-like organization for ocean exploration, because we need to be exploring and protecting our life support systems here on Earth.
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The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
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The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
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I used to play football at school, and I enjoyed really physical sports, but I now try to avoid any sports that might build up different muscles. That might have a negative impact on my archery.
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Colleges will try to get the good students. That's the way to go. When I chaired my department of Materials Engineering at the Technion in 1990, we started a program for which we set the bar very high. It was the highest at the Technion, above electrical engineering and medicine.
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Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.
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The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.
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Brad Pitt has something about him to where he's played different characters in all his movies, and every single time after he's done, I want to be him.
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Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.
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I like the pressure of having to perform so people will come to me.
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After dinner I'll catch up with emails. And when I'm lying in bed, I think about the next collection. That makes me sound insane, doesn't it? That I'm getting into bed with David Beckham and thinking about clothes?
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With 'Anna Karenina,' I just think it's a stunning visual tour de force for a director who is at the top of his game.
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O charitable philosopher, I beg you to help me. My mind is weak but my soul is strong. Kindle that soul, and the sacred fire shall never be extinguished.
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We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster
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Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.
