Erwin Chargaff Quotes
A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great - and few have overcome them successfully - they are compounded in the case of scientists, of whom many lead monotonous and uneventful lives and who, besides, often do not know how to write . . .
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I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
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The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
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Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.
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For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
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I don't need a trailer; I don't need to have the luxuries of what is Hollywood, which is why I'm probably not so desperate to get there.
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The corporations are shoving just the worst music down everybody's throats, and I think the result of that is that nobody has any taste. They have no bar as to what is good.
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Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
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'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.
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America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
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This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.
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I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets.
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I hated high school. It was a prison.
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If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability for our choices, how can we find any triumph in our victories or any remorse in our losses?
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I had an old man moment the other day. I went into Abercrombie & Fitch to get some jeans and the music was so loud I couldn't stay.
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We're all wounded in some way, im just tryin to heal!
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A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great - and few have overcome them successfully - they are compounded in the case of scientists, of whom many lead monotonous and uneventful lives and who, besides, often do not know how to write . . .
