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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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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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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My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
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I love conventional apocalypse movies. In movies, I like to be with the president, or the scientist trying to solve the problem, but that's not the kind of fiction that I like to read.
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My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.
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Some acts of faith, I believe, have the power to grant us something infinitely wiser than we imagine
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I'm from a small Irish family of 10, so there always was music in the house. Growing up, my older sisters had things like 'South Pacific' and opera on.
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Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.
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I made the intentional choice to step behind the camera.
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Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.
