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

• From 1999 through 2001, I was an editor at a now-defunct magazine about the media industry called 'Brill's Content' that eventually merged with a now-defunct website about the media industry called Inside.com.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Media
  • Content
  • Website

• 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

• People don't understand how long it really takes to find beats. Sometimes they're not all the way there, but it's elements in them I love. Then I get to take them to get chopped up. Ye got to cook over a few of them.

  

  Terrence LeVarr Thornton
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • People
  • Life
  • Yourself

• Not winning a title gives fuel to sportswriters and talking heads who question an athlete's true value.

  

  Don Yaeger
  • True
  • Question
  • Value

• When you make a film for a million and a half dollars and it opens at 20 million, the next question out of everyone's mouth is, 'When's the next one, when's the next one, when's the next one?'

  

  Eli Roth
  • Question

• I came out of the mall one day, and a guy was standing there with a coat hanger in his window, and I couldn't stop myself. I asked the stupid question. 'You lock your keys in the car?' 'Nope, just washed it, gonna hang it up to dry.'

  

  Bill Engvall
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Stop

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

  

  Paul Greengard
  • Question
  • Philosophy
  • Solved