Jonas Salk Quotes
The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team.
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
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There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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I just don't think the title 'MJ's daughter' fits me.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
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Coming from a country that's rapidly changing, I love the idea of a place like South Dakota where nothing has really changed.
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I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life.
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Success can be a very difficult thing to deal with.
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Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.
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The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.
