Peter C. Doherty Quotes
I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.
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My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.
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I don't want to scrounge around and be homeless, and I want to finish my education.
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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Microsoft, Disney, Ford, Facebook, and a hundreds and thousands of other companies that affect us daily all began life as baby companies, aka start-ups.
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My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.
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I always had a fascination with twins.
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
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Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
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The problem is I'm not a good photographer. To be perfectly honest, I'm too shy. Not aggressive enough. Well, I'm not aggressive at all. I just loved to see wonderfully dressed women, and I still do. That's all there is to it.
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Even if everyone elseIs not doing good,I alone will.Even if everyone elseis doing wrong,I alone will not.
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If parents don't like some of the stuff I do then they shouldn't let their kids watch me.
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In my day, people didn't do nude scenes. I mean they didn't exist.
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I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.
