Paul Greengard Quotes

I didn't want to spend my life contributing to the development of more atomic weaponry.

Paul Greengard

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• The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Experience
  • American

• I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Color

• The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Good
  • God
  • Real

• When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • School
  • Wrestling
  • Matches

• What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Nice

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Death

• Life is like an analogy.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Life
  • Like
  • Analogy

• I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Ideas
  • More

• You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • World
  • Parents
  • Best

• I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Travel
  • Try
  • Looking

• I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Will

• Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Dream
  • Heaven
  • Democracy

• I just want a big HBO special or a network or somebody willing to get behind my work and promote it. The most frustrating thing for me is to have this successful act that resonates across the country, and the network guys just don't get it. Everyone sees it except them. I want to leave a mark.

  

  Gary Owen
  • Work
  • Country
  • Me

• We're all continuing to grow up and get better as musicians, and the chemistry as a band continues to deepen.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • Band
  • Better

• The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Mind
  • May
  • Understanding

• Doing 'Hedwig' was so hard that I kind of burned out on acting.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell

• I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Working

• I'm only one Neymar - for my family, for the public. I'm always the same person.

  

  Neymar
  • Family

• Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Power
  • Wind
  • Full Of Love

• We are little animals walking on the ground, we have a certain life time, we are acting and interacting with different people, and we are trying to build things, but we are just some sort of virus compared to the entire sky. You always have to remember that the moon, the earth, the sun, they are like the real universal objects. We are just passing by, and it makes life more beautiful to think that way. More relaxing to think that way, that nothing is really important, because you give yourself much more confidence and you forgive yourself more things when you think about that.

  

  Jean-Benoît Dunckel Air
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Real

• I didn't want to spend my life contributing to the development of more atomic weaponry.

  

  Paul Greengard
  • Life
  • Development
  • Weaponry