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.

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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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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.
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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.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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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.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.
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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.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
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People fall in love for mysterious reasons.
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Trump's election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.
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Life must not cease. That comes before everything. It is silly to say you do not care. You do care. It is that care that will prompt your imagination; inflame your desires; make your will irresistible; and create out of nothing.
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And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us.
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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.