Martin Chalfie Quotes
I had been interested in science from when I was very young, but after a disastrous summer lab experience in which every experiment I tried failed, I decided on graduating from college that I was not cut out to be a scientist.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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Ultimately love is everything.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tells you how to catch them, how to clean them.
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Gandalf the Grey was always the guy I prefer. Gandalf the White was driven to do a particular job, whereas Gandalf the Grey is a bit more humane.
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You were born as the one you are.
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The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.
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I put up some great numbers.
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The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama.
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El mundo habrá acabado de joderse -dijo entonces- el día en que los hombres viajen en primera clase y la literatura en el vagón de carga.
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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I can never be the hero now. You have to be young and all that stuff. I used to be the hero.
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I had been interested in science from when I was very young, but after a disastrous summer lab experience in which every experiment I tried failed, I decided on graduating from college that I was not cut out to be a scientist.
