Bruce Beutler Quotes
I felt I ought not to be wasting time, and I hurried to graduate from high school to enroll at UCSD. I also hurried to finish college, to go on to higher studies. By the time I was in my teens, I had a strong sense of mission, wanting to discover something important or solve a major problem in biology or medicine.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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I can't wait until I get to play the fat guy in the office.
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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
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He groaned slightly and winced, like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.
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The appropriate time for the ultimate release of the deposits will have arrived at the onset of the first post-war slump.
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.
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I felt I ought not to be wasting time, and I hurried to graduate from high school to enroll at UCSD. I also hurried to finish college, to go on to higher studies. By the time I was in my teens, I had a strong sense of mission, wanting to discover something important or solve a major problem in biology or medicine.
