John Maynard Smith Quotes
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People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.
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I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.
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It's mad because as a woman, you carry the baby for nine months, so you're very conscious that you have a little one inside you. But for a guy, it's suddenly, there's a baby there.
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Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
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I've wanted recognition; I wanted success; I wanted appreciation; I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor.
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I realized late in life that my twin passions are music and people.
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It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.
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I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar.
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When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
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You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.
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I love to turn an idea that is in my head into reality.
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I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.
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I must be the only person in 'Strictly' history who's actually put on weight during rehearsals.
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This is a free country, and to each their own.
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It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.
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I installed anti-rust roofing into homes in Cairns. I packed boxes at Baby Barn. I was even a Manny! Mate, I know more about braiding hair and My Little Pony than most men, I can tell ya.
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Growing up, I was told I could be anything I wanted to be. There were no limitations restraining me just because I was a girl. Then I joined the military.
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I've had lots of replies, we're into the double figures now. And the overall standard is very good. In fact I've been feeling a little guilty, because I haven't replied to anyone yet - it is something I will be doing.
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The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.
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My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs board game or to inaugurate the walkway of their new office atrium. There's even a microbrewery in Barcelona which wants to know what my favourite beer is so they can brew a similar one in my honour. It is quite mad.
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I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.
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Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.
