Peter Medawar Quotes
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
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Actors make less than you think.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.
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The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear.
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I definitely have a little attraction to bad guys, but they have to be sweethearts underneath. After all, I like to be treated well.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right.
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We're all smart enough to figure out Xs and Os - it's basketball, it's not advanced calculus. But the most important thing is can you get your message across to players? Do they believe in you, and do they want to compete for you?
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Pretty much everybody we know in Glasgow who's in a band has another job. All of us have worked in bars, cafes, or cinemas. It means you can afford to do the thing you love.
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Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.
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At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.
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Creosote has a pretty technological smell.
