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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Almost every script that I've gotten has been for sort of the generic Hollywood type. I haven't chosen them. All the ones I have chosen are because I've been fascinated with the source material or because of the script.
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Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.
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We are living in a world where the individual must learn to command the raw materials of expression. He must not be dependent all the time on the ready-made, the finished product. It's the transferring, the changing of the raw into what is the expression of your own self – the whole joy and satisfaction and frustration of life is built into this.
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I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
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Impetus is a power of the mover applied in a movable thing which causes the movable thing to move after it is separated from its mover.
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Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.
