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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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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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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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.
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The whole point with type is for you not to be aware it is there. If you remember the shape of a spoon with which you just ate some soup, then the spoon had a poor shape.
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I have to say, I'm sort of always obsessed with Norah Jones. I just love her voice, but I don't really have an album - I have a playlist.
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There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.
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I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.
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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 . . .
