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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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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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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Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.
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The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
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Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good.
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When you saw Jon Lovitz or Dana Carvey or Phil Hartman doing something, they were acting. It was real acting. Like, they were acting like that person. They weren't like - it wasn't even like they were really trying to go for a laugh, especially in Phil Hartman's case.
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It just proves that I've been here for a long time and, I guess, have done the right things over the years.
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I'm always moving like a kid. I'm always bouncing around and never sit still.
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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.
