Desiree Rogers Quotes

I'm much more comfortable in a meritocracy and in reward for good work as opposed to a political environment, where I feel like all of that can be confused.

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• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

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• A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.

  

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• There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

  

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• Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

  

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• The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.

  

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• I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.

  

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• I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.

  

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• As soon as we can wrest from Nature the secret of the internal structure of the compounds produced by her, chemical science can then even surpass Nature by producing compounds as variations of the natural ones, which the living cell is unable to construct.

  

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• 'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

  

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• I'm much more comfortable in a meritocracy and in reward for good work as opposed to a political environment, where I feel like all of that can be confused.

  

  Desiree Rogers
  • Good
  • Work
  • Political