Paul D. Boyer (Paul Delos Boyer) Quotes

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

Paul D. Boyer

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• I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Talking
  • Meet

• The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Art
  • Values
  • Questions

• If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.

  

  Walter Payton
  • You
  • Change
  • Now

• I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Trying
  • Brain
  • Enough

• I had tried my best to bring in representatives of the Indian community, but fear for the safety of their families has been a real inhibiting factor.

  

  Laisenia Qarase
  • Real
  • Fear
  • Community

• The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It was God who first set the stars in space; He is their Maker and Master . . . such are His power and His majesty.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Experience
  • Power

• Culturally, I found myself in a very weird situation: you were the person that had made that journey to the West, and then you were going back to comment on something, and then suddenly you were questioned and told, "You can't touch that now because you're a pop star."

  

  M.I.A.
  • Star
  • Weird
  • Journey

• Cheeseburger in paradise!

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Paradise
  • Cheeseburger

• I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.

  

  W. S. Gilbert
  • Moderation
  • Objections

• Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it.

  

  Fritz Perls
  • Humans
  • Functioning
  • Distort

• Just pushing a button is taking a photo. Thinking, lighting, and lots of other things~that's making a photo.

  

  David Doubilet
  • Thinking
  • Buttons
  • Lighting

• My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Truth
  • Career
  • Acting

• One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling processes involve a trade-off of costs and benefits. In general, the more finely the sorting is done, the greater the benefits - and the costs... Sorting and labeling, whether of people or of things, is a sorting and labeling of probabilities rather than of certainties.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Process
  • Social
  • Trade

• Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure.

  

  Millicent Fawcett
  • Opinion
  • Careers
  • Politician

• An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

  

  Paul D. Boyer
  • Careers
  • Benefits
  • Unexpected