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 . . .Erwin Chargaff
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
Danica Patrick -
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.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
Major Owens -
If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
Lane Garrison -
The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
Samuel Goldwyn -
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.
Natascha McElhone
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For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
Owen Arthur -
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.
Vicky McClure -
Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.
Napoleon Hill -
'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.
J. Lee Thompson -
America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
Anand Giridharadas -
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.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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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.
Carl Andre -
I hated high school. It was a prison.
Alan Alda -
A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.
Umberto Eco -
I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
T. J. Perkins -
Because we want the same happiness We keep carving the same wounds onto our hearts. Forever, forever So I won't forget you I call you over and over again Please don't cry any more I won't leave you alone.
Ayumi Hamasaki -
Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
William Wycherley
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Fear is the start of wisdom.
Miguel de Unamuno -
I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.
Oscar Isaac -
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 . . .
Erwin Chargaff