Paul D. Boyer (Paul Delos Boyer) Quotes

It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

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• Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Sad

• A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Live
  • Human
  • Honor

• We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Help
  • Rich
  • Down

• I was known for singing romantic songs to women, but I can also be that guy talking about why you can't be the only girl for me.

  

  Maluma
  • Women
  • Why
  • Guy

• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • World
  • May
  • Fear

• I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Live
  • Home

• In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Good
  • Way
  • Screen

• I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Live
  • Man
  • Proud

• I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age.

  

  Eddie Money
  • Up
  • Age
  • Getting

• We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy 'cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Pretty
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence, and birth order.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Brain
  • Research
  • Size

• It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Character
  • Imagination

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and we'd play those shows, and it was very Jersey. It was very suburban, and there's just a great pride there.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Up
  • Great
  • Music

• It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Up
  • Game
  • Funny

• A 'Friends' shoot night could extend well into the small hours of the morning.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Small

• When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Sound
  • Vote

• I'm not a team sports person type person, so I probably would have been good at tennis, because I like tennis. But my parents really didn't push me. I think if my parents would have guided me and stay committed, I could have played any sport I wanted to, but I never did.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Team

• When I first found out I had HIV, I had to find somebody who was living with it, who could help me understand my journey and what I was going to have to deal with day-to-day. I found out that a person named Elizabeth Frazier was living with AIDS at the time, and so I called her up, and she took a meeting with me.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• I didn't go to high school, but when I did go to school, I was actually in the group made up of cheerleaders; I just wasn't one of them. But I hung out with a bunch of different kids.

  

  Ashley Benson
  • Up
  • Different
  • School

• It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

  

  Donald Berwick
  • World
  • American
  • Health

• What you get at the BMI Workshop is the rarest commodity in New York City: Friendly criticism; people who genuinely root for you; and a chance to rewrite your work, try it again, and hone your craft.

  

  Maury Yeston
  • People
  • Work
  • City

• It's true, I've become one of those grumpy older women.

  

  Penelope Wilton
  • Women
  • True

• It wasn't until late high school and early college that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome on intramural basketball teams.

  

  Paul D. Boyer
  • School
  • Team
  • College