John Charles Polanyi Quotes
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
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You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone who allows you to know that no matter how dark the night, in the morning joy will come. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive.
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Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
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Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
