Erwin Chargaff Quotes
There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own field the biochemist Fritz Lipmann or the much maligned Linus Pauling were very talented people. But generally, geniuses everywhere seem to have died out by 1914. Today, most are mediocrities blown up by the winds of the time.
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Yeah, good to be here. I haven't been here in two years...no applause...thanks. It's that warmth I've missed in Austin. Adding extra Southern drawl So, we been here, ain't our fault you gotta travel around, shit. We supposed to follow you around? You supposed to be back here. What are you doin', where are you?
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From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.
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Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.
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I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.
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When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.
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I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.
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I may not be able to define pornography but I know it when I see it.
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In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.
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A prince should suspect everything.
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At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.
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We just like to make great songs and have fun, and if people want to nominate us for a Grammy and celebrate it, then we'll take it.
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Don't make music to make money, because that's not why you should be doing it. Have fun, be creative, and embrace the past.
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I think some musicians can almost forget that the stage is something to do something on, even if that thing is standing still.
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Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.
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Everything is minimal, and if it's over, it's over. We're abrupt with things: in and out. Especially if it's an overdub - it's gone. It does something that's not real.
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Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.
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There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own field the biochemist Fritz Lipmann or the much maligned Linus Pauling were very talented people. But generally, geniuses everywhere seem to have died out by 1914. Today, most are mediocrities blown up by the winds of the time.
