Peter Medawar Quotes
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.
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It's pretty much run by everybody. We're very involved in everything that goes on. We always have been.
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The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center serves as a poignant reminder of our past and a trusted source of education for schoolchildren, community members, and visitors from across the country.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
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As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.
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You are never really prepared for criticism.
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I am a businessman.
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My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
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There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.
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There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.
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Marriage is an exercise in torture.
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April is tax month. If you are having trouble filing your taxes, then you should hire an accountant. They'll give you the same advice that they've given hundreds of corporations - taxes are for douche bags.
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Of course, I tweet. Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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Are the new viewers gone yet?
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When I was old enough to know better, I ate a bar of soap in the shape of the Muppets' Fozzie Bear, because I loved him so much I wanted to consume him, even if doing so made me ill. I didn't yet know the word 'foreshadowing.' Fozzie was the only first of many pop-culture icons I feel shaped by.
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Yeah, the material's been good so far, although I'm sure there's got to be a drought coming someday.
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It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.
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Is not thy home among the flowers?
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Maybe if one person suffers anywhere in the world, we all have blood in our hands.
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