Paul Greengard Quotes
I have a lot of confidence through my accomplishments. I'm always trying to prove I'm not the worthless child they say I was.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
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A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.
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I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.
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The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.
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I think it's very helpful having Twitter and all that. I mainly talk about work on Twitter. I keep my personal life separate from my work life, but I think it helps because everybody's on the Internet now - everybody has Facebook; everybody has Twitter.
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It takes a while for audiences on film to see you as something different if they've seen you for so long as a specific character. It's up to the actor to be like, 'Look man, let's try something else,' even if it's an ultra-low-budget independent. People who rep you will keep going with whatever they can send you on.
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I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
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If we are to be good stewards of the ocean, we need to understand what lives there and how the animals interact with each other and with their environment, which means we need to be constantly seeking new and improved methods for exploration and observation.
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Then a overflowing desire comes to me, absurd, of a sort of satanism before Satan, in that one day ... an escape out of God can be found and the deepest of us stops, I don't know how, to be a part of being or not being.
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We don't have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.
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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
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The first time I got pregnant, I was a young girl - I was 17 years old. Although I knew right away that I wanted to keep my child, being a pregnant teen was an extremely scary experience for me. Luckily, my family and friends were very supportive and were there for me every step of the way.
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While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved.
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I don't have much of a bucket list. I don't have a lot of needs and desires.
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Falsehood falsehood cures
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On stage, you have to have incredible confidence, or you would stop doing it. But I don't think I will ever get to the point where I go, 'I know exactly what I am doing,' and I don't think I want to.
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I'm also conscious of what this confidence that has been placed in me means. I'm going to the Games through the back door but I'm working everyday to exit through the main door!
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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I have a lot of confidence through my accomplishments. I'm always trying to prove I'm not the worthless child they say I was.
