Maurice Wilkins Quotes
In the time of my parents, before World War One, most people who came to New Zealand from Europe were the more enterprising people; the people who were stronger mentally. It takes a certain amount of imagination to make a life on the other side of the world, the same imagination it takes to climb the tallest mountain.Maurice Wilkins
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley -
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
Edmund Phelps -
We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
Tanya Tucker -
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Savage Landor -
America preaches integration and practices segregation.
Malcolm X -
Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
Samuel Johnson
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
Idris Elba -
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
Karl Malone -
I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
Pat Buchanan -
I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
Sam Hunt
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
Kate Brown -
As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.
Dalai Lama -
What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.
Samuel Alexander -
There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
Kate Winslet -
I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
Rachel Zoe -
Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
Malorie Blackman
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'I think it is so glorious,' said the American. 'There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. That is what father says. What men ought to want is liberty.'
Anthony Trollope -
It's kind of a loping stroke. It's not the prettiest stroke. But it's what's most efficient for me. And I think I kick a little more than most swimmers do.
Katie Ledecky -
The defence of internal peace and order constitutes the sacred mission of a nation's armed forces and that is what we have carried out.
Francisco Franco -
My favorite thing about doing photo shoots is just being able to have fun, meeting new people, getting dressed up, and I just love doing it. So, I have a lot of fun.
Kendall Jenner -
I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
William Golding -
In the time of my parents, before World War One, most people who came to New Zealand from Europe were the more enterprising people; the people who were stronger mentally. It takes a certain amount of imagination to make a life on the other side of the world, the same imagination it takes to climb the tallest mountain.
Maurice Wilkins