Brian Kobilka Quotes
If you really want something bad enough, if you're really interested in something enough, you know, you just keep working on it.
Quotes to Explore
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
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Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
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I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!
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Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name.
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No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.
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If you really want something bad enough, if you're really interested in something enough, you know, you just keep working on it.
