John Charles Polanyi Quotes
Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viruses and people trying to publish other people's content, but the underlying thing is to eliminate that barrier between people who create stuff and people who want to have access to it.
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I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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I would like to be a polyglot.
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I know all actors are different, but I've never sat down and asked the writers, 'Where are we headed? Am I good or bad?'
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The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.
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In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
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I really, really, really love my job, so it's not like I'm trying to quit wrestling to do movies. They just all seemed like cool things to do. I mean, I'd love to be the bad guy in an action movie because then people would get to see another side of me they don't get to see.
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I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality.
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Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.
