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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I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.
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Swinges the scaly horror of his folded tail.
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I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.
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So, I kind of rather was hoping that people thought it would have a nice mixture of different topics and it also takes in the fact that I've had two children recently.
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In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
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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.
