Peter Medawar Quotes
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.Peter Medawar
Quotes to Explore
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
Lakhdar Brahimi -
Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
Sam Hunt -
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig -
I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
Yanis Varoufakis -
Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
Nancy Cartwright -
I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
Jack Nicholson
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As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
Kate Brown -
Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. -
I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
Eddie Murphy -
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
M. H. Abrams -
I have never known stage-fright at any time.
Kate Smith -
For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
Action Bronson -
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
Malcolm Gladwell -
In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
Larry Hogan -
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Randall Jarrell -
Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
Naveen Jain -
The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
Caitlin Doughty
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The way you play, you need to talk about winning. Don't talk about keeping your card - talk about winning.
Vijay Singh -
I always wear Nike trainers and love a hoodie. I have a big black and gold one from Adidas that I'm obsessed with.
Poppy Delevingne -
I felt deeply loved, highly respected by my colleagues and everybody in the world of motorsport.
Maria de Villota -
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
Iain Banks -
The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series, like 'The Wire' or 'The Sopranos.' There's one central plot line, but then from that spin off all kinds of subplots.
Jennifer Egan -
A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.
Peter Medawar