Iain McGilchrist Quotes
We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
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There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.
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I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.
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When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
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Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
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All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
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Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap.
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As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.
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In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.
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Always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you.
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I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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I've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.
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Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.
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The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.
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The impact of the human tragedies I've reported on is that, more often than not, I'll be angry. I want to know why is this child dying? These are not acts of God; they're results of respectable politicians' decisions.
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Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.
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A runner needs not just to be skinny but - more specifically - to have skinny calves and ankles, because every extra pound carried on your extremities costs more than a pound carried on your torso. That's why shaving even a few ounces off a pair of running shoes can have a significant effect.
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As I look back on the day I signed my professional contract in 1973, I've never gone to sleep wondering if I could pay the bills or take care of my family. That's what basketball has done for me. It's given me the greatest of thrills from high school to college to the Olympics to coaching to broadcasting.
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
