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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Yorgos Lanthimos said, "What about if he's a bit soft?" And I said, "Yeah, I think you're right." He just comfort-eats a little bit too much. He's just asleep in his own life and has let himself go. And the mustache, I don't know if it was him or I suggested it. But I remember my sister was watching me eat and she was like, "God, does he have to be fat?" And in retrospect I couldn't think of David being any other way because it affected the way I moved. It really did. It slowed me down in a way that I felt was conducive to kind of tapping into the spirit of the character.
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I'll get to make a lot of money and do some bad sitcoms.
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Even if somebody wanted to tell me what one of my songs meant to him or her, I can't do it - I would be probably put to tears every time.
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I don't write anything down - it comes from my head and my soul and my heart and my pain. That allows me to make the best music I can make.
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Tomorrow will be a new day.
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Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.
