Georg Brandes Quotes
But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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If I wasn't going to be a surgeon, I wanted to be a farmer or grow oranges or something like that. I grow flowers now - orchids. That is something that I find very interesting.
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Once I looked into a mirror at my face I felt like it was completely convincing. I was Salieri.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.
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I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my life. At the time, when I was 20 to 26, I could do things like that, and you're not going to notice it.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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When I was working on my Ph.D., I developed a computer algorithm to look for rapid changes in populations' DNA. Our DNA changes constantly over generations, but if certain changes spread through a population more quickly than others, they are probably the beneficial results of natural selection. This is the protection we give ourselves to survive.
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Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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We cannot have a system that everything can be passed on to the final consumer in the garb of cost being recovered without being sensitive to their own problems and affordability.
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I’ve actually broken up with boyfriends for inspiration.
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Who is my biggest inspiration? Wow... I really, without wanting to sound 'aw gee shucks,' I'd have to say my wife who taught a rather uptight Englishman what there is to be got out of life. Susan is my greatest inspiration. She has more integrity than anyone I know, and integrity is more important than anything for a happy and successful life.
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But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.
