George Porter Quotes
Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
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My first priority is trying to protect my family.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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First appearance deceives many.
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It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.
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The real women who decide to enlist to work their way up in the ranks to become a Major in the United States Army are some freakin' tough broads.
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Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.
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There is no rule in the pink-triangle guide to coming out that you must wear a rainbow flag cap and organise a full band parade.
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I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.
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Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.
