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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My office looks very empty compared with my house. The house is completely crammed full with things that Patrick and I love. It's very eclectic. There are things that have no value but which we like. We have a lot of Belgian painters; we have international painters. We have nice things; we have ugly things. I don't want that things are predictable.
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What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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Every day, I'm working hard to improve my craft as an artist, my connection with the best fans, and keep pushing my work ethic. All those things make me happy.
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Collective action is a means of power, a means by which individuals can more fully realize their individual values.
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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
