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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A producer is supposed to generate an idea for a movie. And then they're supposed to create the team, the group of people that are gonna make this movie. And within that team, the producer has to have a creative vision and a fiscal vision, and they have to adhere to both things.
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I work harder than every single person I know, and the only person that is on the same level as me is my brother. If you look at the top social media stars, it's me and him. I think that's our advantage. We're not the prettiest; we're not even the funniest, we're not the wittiest, whatever it is.
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Light knows when you're looking at it.
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You don’t win by getting through all your life not having done anything.
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It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.
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Creosote has a pretty technological smell.