James Turrell Quotes
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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I worked at Starbucks when I was 16... It was all right.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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People always give me styling products and stuff.
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There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.
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It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.
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If athletes are found to have taken performance enhancing drugs, then they should be banned for two years, even if they are British.
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I hang out with the right people, my friends that I've had since the beginning. We go to the beach, take walks, paint, see our family - just normal things that people who become famous lose sight of.
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As storytellers, we tend to want to force-feed everything and have everybody understand everything right away, and we freak out if they don't.
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There was a time when I restored antique planes to support my art habit.
