Bonnie Bassler Quotes
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
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Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
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It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
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India has a very good tradition in tennis.
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I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.
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Be happy in your own skin.
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I love playing to people and seeing them react.
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I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
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I've always been one of those people – once I start something, I have to get it all out, because it gets me.
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I don't know that anybody has walked up to me in the street or in a store or in the grocery and said to me, 'I hope you bomb Assad.' Certainly plenty have said, 'No; thumbs down, thumbs down, thumbs down.'
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You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy', and the other 'tyranny'.
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Un désespoir paisible, sans convulsions de colère et sans reproches au ciel est la sagesse même.
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I've always been a direct guy.
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I always respect a woman.
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You cannot assume that somebody can define you. You cannot assume that the other person is right. No matter how they say it to you, no matter with how much force they say, ‘Oh my god, you’ll never make it; oh my god, you’re not bright; you could never do this’—that’s one person. I can’t tell you how many people told me I would never be an actor.
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I made clothes because I was looking for something that didn't exist. I had to try to create my own world.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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So, okay, I'm not a genius. Vincent Van Gogh and Albert Einstein were geniuses.
