Paul Greengard Quotes

My philosophy is that we should ask the most important question that's capable of being solved.

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• It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Sleep

• I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Play
  • Boring
  • Reaction

• People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Guy
  • Attention
  • Nice

• Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • World
  • Differences
  • Very

• Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Why
  • Pretty
  • Body

• I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Money
  • Everything
  • Give

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Better
  • Well

• The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Book
  • Beginning
  • Start

• The plan shows that the twenty million people in the German democratic Republic and in the democratic sector of Berlin think only of peace, and that they are working for freedom and peaceful prosperity.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • History
  • Player
  • Road

• A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Life
  • True
  • Beautiful

• Between the conceptionAnd the creationBetween the emotionAnd the responseFalls the Shadow

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Shadow

• He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Reality
  • Sleep
  • Dance

• I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Joy

• I have a mind like a steel trap. Stuff gets in there and WHAM! it never gets back out again.

  

  Bill Austin
  • Stuff
  • Trap

• The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.

  

  Mark-Paul Gosselaar

• With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation.

  

  Arthur Laffer
  • Money
  • Economy
  • Inflation

• The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Great
  • History

• I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding the time to do it. I kind of like the direct connection with the fans actually, it's pretty neat.

  

  David Cronenberg
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Mind

• My philosophy is that we should ask the most important question that's capable of being solved.

  

  Paul Greengard
  • Question
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