John Boyd Orr Quotes
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it is likely to exert an indirect and reciprocal influence on science itself.
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On the PBS recording of 'The Light in the Piazza' backstage, you get to see me doing some sweet lunges down the hallway of the Vivian Beaumont.
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I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do.
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We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.
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I was born in Vancouver, then went to high school and college in Seattle. Then I moved to Los Angeles after college.
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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
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Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
