John Gurdon Quotes
For my part, I have worked all my life with eggs and embryos of frogs. Compared to other small animals, these have figured prominently in the world of literature.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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Whenever someone says the word community, I want to reach for an oxygen mask.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.
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Diversity in media is something that is intrinsic to a democratic society. We do not want the whole media owned by one person.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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There can be problems with extended families, and it can get a little close for comfort. But for the younger generations, it's clear that this option is becoming almost as appealing as living alone.
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For my part, I have worked all my life with eggs and embryos of frogs. Compared to other small animals, these have figured prominently in the world of literature.
