Geoffrey West Quotes
The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great options for keeping it moisturized.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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At comedy festivals, we always get grouped with other musical comedians, so you can get to know them and see what everyone is doing. it's really fun and awesome that we're the only girls, because we can tackle issues that guys can't sing about.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.
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In order to predict effectively, we need to use science. And the reason that we need to use science is because then we can reproduce what we're doing; it's not just wisdom or guesswork. And if we can predict, then we can engineer the future.
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People are attracted to people of high reproductive and genetic potential -the healthy, the fit and the powerful. The consequences of this fact, which goes under the name of sexual selection, are bizarre in the extreme.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices
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Judd Apatow, together with me and Lena, we're all the showrunners of 'Girls.'
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The paradigm of physics - with its interplay of data, theory and prediction - is the most powerful in science.
