Francis Crick Quotes
My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists': "If you want to understand function, study structure".
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The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
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I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
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I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
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The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action - common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.
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In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party. You've just gotta bring it all back home.
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It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to attain the heights he wants to reach, how then can he devote any of the little time he has to things outside of his art?
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I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure.
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The nature of love is to kill for it, or to die.
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Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.
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Have your own life before you become somebody's wife.
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Don’t be friends with jerks.
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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
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If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills? Then gradually, more white hair, wrinkles.
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Cyberspace is the funhouse mirror of our own society.
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Our strategy is how we cope--how we measure and weigh what is to be said and when, what is to be done and how, and to whom and towhom and to whom, daily deciding/risking who it is we can call an ally, call a friend (whatever that person's skin, sex or sexuality). We are women without a line. We are women who contradict each other.
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Scott Brown is a superstar. Scott Brown won a race that nobody expected Republicans to even be competitive in, and he was able to do it at a time when nothing else going on, so he captured the attention of conservatives across the country.
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To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.
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All good art is abstract in its structure.
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My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists': "If you want to understand function, study structure".
