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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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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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 take my work seriously.
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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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They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
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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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Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
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Suddenly, everyone woke up, and everything was moving online. We've got Netflix making original series, CBS placing their network online, and suddenly, everyone's announcing some kind of digital network for serving their content online.
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The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.
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It is so cold out there, my head nearly fell off.
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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.
