Oliver Sacks Quotes
A spectacular anomaly came up with the hydrides of the nonmetals-an ugly bunch, about as inimical to life as one could get. Arsenic and antimony hydrides were very poisonous and smelly; silicon and phosphorous hydrides were spontaneously inflammable. I had made in my lab the hydrides of sulfur (H
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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I've never really lived a conventional life, so I think it's quite foolish for me or anyone else to start thinking that I am going to start making conventional choices.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.
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I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.
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I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.
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My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
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People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
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A tactic used by authors of virtually every single book I've ever read that propounds a conspiracy theory is to attack an agency as being part of a conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination, but when this same agency comes up with something favorable to the author's position, the author will cite that same agency as credible support for his argument.
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Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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I grew up in eastern Kentucky, and we would sing in the churches, and there's lots of good mountain church singers out there. Like a lot of folks who turn out to be secular music artists, that's a lot of the training you put in, whether you know it or not.
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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
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I want you to like me, but I don't care if you don't.
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For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.
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Joss Whedon and all the writers of 'Iron Man' and 'Thor' found a way to keep Coulson saying something that keeps you guessing. I'm really lucky because a lot of people play agents and don't get nearly as much fun stuff to do.
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A spectacular anomaly came up with the hydrides of the nonmetals-an ugly bunch, about as inimical to life as one could get. Arsenic and antimony hydrides were very poisonous and smelly; silicon and phosphorous hydrides were spontaneously inflammable. I had made in my lab the hydrides of sulfur (H
