Paul Nurse Quotes
I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.
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I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.
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I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.
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Heckles always vary. I mean, some people are just drunk, and it's nonsense, or, you know, some people just want to just repeat something I've said or add their own two cents about an opinion, but because of the nature of what I do and who I am, like, I also get the racist stuff, which is hard.
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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He Lenny Dykstra might be Nails, but I'm frickin' bayonets.
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My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.
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Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.
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The status quo is simply unacceptable.
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Weddings have always spooked me.
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I'm not interested in owning a bunch of driveways.
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The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.
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In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.
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But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.
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It's all about being professional. You can't be dwelling on mistakes.
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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
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Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can to the song and the initial inspiration.
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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars' worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs. It doesn't take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
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I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.
