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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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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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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My recipes aren't geared towards women; my books are marketed towards women because women are the biggest market for weight loss, weight management and weight maintenance and for cooking.
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Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.
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A company's best advantage should be a quality product offered at the right price. That fair competition is what drives innovation.
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Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.
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If my assistant goes off and becomes successful, and people want to work with him, I'd take that as a compliment that I'd trained them well.
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You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.
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Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better.
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It was always assumed that I would go to college.
