Matthew Walker Quotes
Midnight is the time when we think, 'Well, we should probably send our last email; let me just check Facebook one more time.'
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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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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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Life is like an analogy.
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While I started out with a vague understanding that diversity would be important, my own observations have led me to realize that achieving greater levels of diversity is in fact vital to our long-term success.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
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I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.
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If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.
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When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
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For some we loved, the loveliest and the best That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest, Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest.
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It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.
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Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.
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I have been passed over on some things because people didn't think I was edgy enough. But the people who took those gigs are gone now, and I am still here.
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Midnight is the time when we think, 'Well, we should probably send our last email; let me just check Facebook one more time.'
