Paul D. Boyer (Paul Delos Boyer) Quotes
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My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
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Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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When I got pregnant, I had to concentrate on being pregnant for a whole nine months, even though I knew it was ruining my career at the time.
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There is no executive order; there is no law that can require the American people to form a national community. This we must do as individuals and if we do it as individuals, there is no President of the United States who can veto that decision.
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My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.
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It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.
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#BlackLivesMatter is about black pride and black power and standing up against a world that tries to annihilate us.
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We're going to be human, and we are going to make mistakes, but you really should understand the power that you have and embrace it in a positive way.
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To be a great creator, you have to be vulnerable. You're creating characters that have a little bit of yourself in them... And you want to know it's a safe environment for that.
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Power is the agency to effect change, pure and simple. The more power you have, the clearer and less frictional the trajectory from an idea in your mind to its birth in real life.
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Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.
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I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.
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You are only as good as your last book, and so there has to be a book.
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Do you think Christianity could have lasted for nearly two thousand years on its promises unless the Lord could deliver on them?
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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It was always assumed that I would go to college.
