Eric Kandel Quotes
There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there was little to suggest I would have an academic career.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.
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Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful.
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I didn't really discover 'Risky Business' until later in life because I was so young when it came out.
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Since I was very young I've been fascinated with nature and I actually wanted to be a marine biologist when I was very young. That was a great passion of mine. So I suppose in the off season when I'm not making movies, I became more and more active as an environmentalist trying to be more vocal about issues that I felt were important.
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I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one detail in the scene I'm about to write that I'm really excited about writing. Until I can come up with that one detail, I pace.
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There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there was little to suggest I would have an academic career.
