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 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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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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I still prefer the bebop of the '40s. The very stuff I started out with is still the best to me. I have come full circle.
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One of the big problems we had was, 'Where are we going to put the trailer?' So now they've found places - they did 'A Walk in the Woods,' they put it with that movie 'War Room,' they put it with 'Ricki and the Flash.'
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I did this TV show, which was my first job ever. It wasn't a real acting part. It was like this promo for this sitcom and the main actress was meeting three different real people and then she was going to decide who was going to be on the episode.
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Often, what people don't say tell you more about the nature of their insecurities than what they do say.
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What my true addiction is is reading. I love to read. If I'd get too loaded, I couldn't remember the sentence I just read.
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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.
