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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The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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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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He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always.
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Women who choose to breastfeed should get as much education and support as possible.
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Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
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As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.
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