Joseph Lister Quotes
If a man is not to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves to him, what is he to do, or what is he good for?
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and weaknesses. We need to utilize our strengths, but not so much that we don't work on our weaknesses.
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I resent that there is an image of perfection that is getting thinner and thinner. I've got a lovely husband and children, and I didn't lose weight to find those things.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
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The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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No matter where I am in the world, I will always be back home for Christmas.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very different artists. I took pages out of Pac's book, of course, and lots of other rappers - Biggie, Nas - of course you take pages out of those books, but you eventually make it your own thing. And I think I did a good job of that.
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You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software.
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There's so many different styles to it. I use my athletic ability to create shots for open people, I run the floor, then also space the floor as well. That's what I try to do.
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The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.
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To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.
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You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.
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You worry about whether you are match-fit, coming back to the stand-up stage.
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Out of 6 billion humans, the troublemakers are just a handful.
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I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.
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If a man is not to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves to him, what is he to do, or what is he good for?
