Eric Kandel Quotes
I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.
Quotes to Explore
-
I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
-
Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
-
I'm half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house - so that's like a very Latin staple. It's just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can't wait for my rice and beans and chicken.
-
I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
-
In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.
-
I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
-
I moved out when I was 17 to get away from a pretty tough and difficult family environment.
-
Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.
-
I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
-
Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
-
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
-
The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.
-
At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
-
People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
-
I don't particularly like L.A.
-
Politics ruins the character.
-
I don't actually go out and pursue a route that will fit me best, it's just that something comes to me and I enjoy it and want to be a part of it.
-
I simply believe that people who respect their customers and have faith in their own technology products should welcome competition and that consumer choice should be a paramount value in retailing.
-
Immortal is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, ’T is a necessity.Of heaven above the firmest proof We fundamental know, Except for its marauding hand, It had been heaven below.
-
I have been pushed to anger by the pervasive moral and ethical minimalism of this White House
-
If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.
-
The case could be made that Rick Perry is the worst debater to ever run for president.
-
When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn't blogging encompassed that ease of functionality?
-
I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.
