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 do know that I think children should be vaccinated because that affects the health of all the other children.
Amanda Peet -
I don't feel like a grandmother. I don't.
Priscilla Presley -
Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river.
Ann Rutherford -
I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.
Danielle Fishel -
The Compton I knew was from my mother, and it was beautiful. It was this close-knit community, and people cared about one another, and it was safe.
Aja Brown -
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