Erwin Chargaff Quotes
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I've been watching a lot of A&E's 'Intervention.' I know that's sort of depressing, but I love watching it.
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My whole life is about being Nicki Minaj now. It's a never-ending saga.
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There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.
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Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!
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Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.
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Life is good when you have a good sandwich.
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Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.
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telling the truth about children's lives is radical.
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Life is like a box of terrible analogies...
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This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls "will find an even higher place to dwell" when this life is over. If that's true, there's no reason to fear failure or death. The other possibility is that this life is all there is. And if that's true, then we have to really live it - we have to take it for everything it has and "die enormous" instead of "living dormant," as I said way back on "Can I Live." Either way, fear is a waste of time.
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[On her dogs:] I have four now. My friends tell me if I get any more they'll have to hold an intervention.
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Life is about making right things and going on.
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Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.
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Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.
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Spring is worth the wait. Life is worth the death.
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The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.
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One life is an absurdly small allowance.
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I went through an experience that taught me that as soon as you think that you know how your life is going to be, something in the universe will make you realize that you really are not that in control of it.
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I accept that life is uncertain--that the goal is not to become more certain about anything but to relax more into the mystery of not knowing what will come next. And then, miracle of miracles, out there in the deep and uncertain water, I come into a peaceful knowing--a faithful wisdom that surpasses control and certainty.
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Guy Fieri's hair is the front lawn to hell.
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When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons or, say, ecology, i.e., anyone who distinguishes himself through mental excellence, is a nuisance.
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If Miles Davis hadn't died it would have been interesting to do an album with him, but there wasn't much else that would have got me into the studio... although Herbie Hancock has just been in touch about doing something and that would be an interesting combination.
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Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.
