Paul Berg Quotes
With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
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If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.
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In my column series 'The Main Thing', I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.
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A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player.
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General consultant to mankind.
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If two wrongs don't make a right, then what do three wrongs make? What about four?
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I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.
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With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.
