John Eccles Quotes
I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'John Eccles
Quotes to Explore
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Samuel Butler -
I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
Banks -
I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
Kat Edmonson -
I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
Natalia Tena -
You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
Daniel Clowes -
Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
Natalie Merchant
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
Najib Razak -
Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
Nathan Myhrvold -
My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
Ramon Rodriguez -
Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.
Jack Canfield -
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
Wayne Dyer -
'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
Adam Driver -
You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
Ornette Coleman -
The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
Wendell Willkie -
There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
Ian Mckellen -
And then also I think it's harder for women because comedy is so opposite of being ladylike.
Wanda Sykes
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Without a doubt, priority No. 1 is always my family. Whether it's my children or my husband or even my girlfriends who are also my family, I put them first no matter what. And it makes it easy to then juggle everything else because it's never a question.
Vanessa Lachey -
But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been.
Bruce McCulloch -
Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.
Daniel Pennac -
It doesn't matter who likes you or doesn't like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.
Joel Osteen -
I can actually build my equipment at the back end of the telescope such that it takes the data from all of the separate antennas and adds the signal together with different time delays and different phase shifts - it's as if I were picking out up to eight individual pixels in this large field of view.
Jill Tarter -
I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'
John Eccles