Frank Macfarlane Burnet Quotes

Serum albumin is a well-defined protein, but no laboratory has yet attempted to ascertain its full chemical structure.

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

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• I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • Think
  • You
  • Confident

• I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • People
  • Why
  • Party

• What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Children
  • Fear
  • Tomorrow

• If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Respect
  • Never
  • Confidence

• Love is always being given where it is not required.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Always
  • Given

• I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Education
  • Me
  • Welfare

• What do wealthy people do with their money? They can only buy so many cars, houses, and steak dinners. So we either give it away or invest it.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Money
  • Invest

• Everything I do, I want to be A.J. Styles. When you see a guy come out with dry, long hair, I want you to be like, 'Hey, that reminds me of A.J. Styles.' That's what I want.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Me

• I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • School
  • History
  • Words

• In fact, contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People

• Virtue is not always amiable.

  

  John Adams

• Nobody wants to say, at least not for publication, that we live in a society that cares as much about the humanities as it cares about the color of the rain in Tashkent.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Live
  • Society
  • Color

• Beings who are so uniquely constituted must necessarily express themselves in other ways than ordinary men. It is impossible that with souls so differently modified, they should not carry over into the expression of their feelings and ideas the stamp of those modifications.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men

• I am a trained, professional stunt driver. I'm a great driver.

  

  Andrea Parker
  • Great
  • Professional

• Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

  

  Franklin Pierce

• I'm representing for the plus-size community and the plus-size industry. It feels amazing to be able to be the voice that we need.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Community
  • Amazing

• I don't understand some of the music I hear on MTV or the radio, because they don't mention the times we live in. They have nothing to do with nothing.

  

  Daron Malakian System Of A Down
  • Music
  • Live

• When you're walking around in Shanghai, I called it the City of Near Misses, because they do not stop for pedestrians. And the pedestrians do not have the right of way. It's those little things that no one tells you.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Stop
  • City
  • Walking

• I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Once you've hypnotised someone once, you can pretty much put them under instantly any time you meet them afterwards.

  

  Keith Barry
  • Time
  • Pretty

• You've got to get away from the idea cancer is a disease to be cured. It's not a disease really. The cancer cell is your own body, your own cells, just misbehaving and going a bit wrong, and you don't have to cure cancer. You don't have to get rid of all those cells. Most people have cancer cells swirling around inside them all the time and mostly they don't do any harm, so what we want to do is prevent the cancer from gaining control. We just want to keep it in check for long enough that people die of something else.

  

  Paul Davies
  • People
  • Long
  • Body

• I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty.

  

  Rebecca Wells
  • Woman
  • Mood
  • Act

• What other developed democracy has such a ridiculous and squalid history of intolerance? From the imprisonment and roasting of heretics, witches and poachers, to the censorship of literature, art and television: from St Alban through Wilde, Joyce and Lawrence I think we can point with pride to as grim a catalogue of intemperate, bigoted repression as any nation on earth.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Pride

• Serum albumin is a well-defined protein, but no laboratory has yet attempted to ascertain its full chemical structure.

  

  Frank Macfarlane Burnet