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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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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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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To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
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My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.
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I truly don't have any formula for the choices I make.
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I ended up injuring her with a knife I had on me. I can't really remember what happened.
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We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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The harvest of the Lord’s field is seldom ripened by sunshine only. It must go through its days of wind, rain and storm.
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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.
