Eric Kandel Quotes
I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking at the data as they emerged day by day and discussing them with my students and postdoctoral fellows, I would gain a notion of what to do next.

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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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I got through college.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.
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The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.
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Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.
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I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.
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I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking at the data as they emerged day by day and discussing them with my students and postdoctoral fellows, I would gain a notion of what to do next.