Dorothy Day Quotes
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
Sam Kean -
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
Rachel Johnson -
My opinion can be completely different after a show.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I'm not in a position to go back into public service.
Jack Keane -
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
Sam Palladio
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
Wendell Willkie -
French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
Vincent Cassel -
I have an incredible phobia of divorce.
Tamron Hall -
Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
L. E. Modesitt -
If I'm going to be 'too' anything, 'too cute' is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies?
Zooey Deschanel
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln -
You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
Kalpana Chawla -
If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.
Adam Cohen -
My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
Samaire Armstrong -
I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.
Sam Shepard -
I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.
Taylor Swift
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Einstein had two new predictions from general relativity. One was that light would bend. That was tested in 1919, and basically, he was proven right. The second prediction was gravitational waves, which took us 100 years to prove. The theory itself, which is thought by most to be rather obscure, you use every day, probably.
Barry Barish -
I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and raised Catholic, which is about the extent of my religion. My parents made one request: that I have my first Holy Communion.
Tom Araya Slayer -
Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in your mouth, the gases that are released goes into these nostrils. People who wolf their food are missing some of the flavor.
Mary Roach -
But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.
Homer -
Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.
Niki de Saint Phalle -
Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
Dorothy Day