John Gurdon Quotes
I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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The secret of my success with Geraldine is that she's not a putdown of women. She's smart, she's trustful, she's loyal, she's sassy.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
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The artistic capability of reinforced concrete is so fantastic - that is the way to go.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
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I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
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Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.
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Your soul's mission is to serve in the grandest way it can. Divine plans lie imprinted in your inner world, and there are important lessons for you to learn and share on this journey to your most magnificent self.
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You want to go play with your new friends back there? The really pale ones with the taste for plasma? --Shane
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I decided that I wanted to be an actress at the age of 7. This is something I've always known.
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Nowadays you really have to pump out that blockbuster in order to have the luxury of getting a body of work, and that's sad because the work suffers. Today everything is based on money. The older actors, they inspire me.
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I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.
