Peter Medawar Quotes
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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Small aim is a crime.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.
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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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Let go the things of which you are in doubt for the things in which there is no doubt.
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Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments.
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Music is the only art that actually lives.
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If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
