Robert Winston Quotes
I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I think one of the issues about our society is that we make judgments about people on the basis of very flimsy evidence.
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People in my confirmation process, on the right and the left, really loved that idea of having someone who's going to be in meetings arguing on behalf of the dignity of people who sometimes aren't represented in meetings. But by the same token, they have somewhat unrealistic expectations that I can kind of make my own policy.
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.
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We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
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I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
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I feel like I ask people who have been in the industry for a while a lot of questions.
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When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.
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Imperfect substitutability of assets implies that changes in the supplies of various assets available to private investors may affect the prices and yields of those assets.
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If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.
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To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.
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Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear.
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My major in college was speech therapy, but to do what I wanted I would have to go on and get my Master's Degree. I figured I needed a change of pace.
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Peace is more than the end of violence. Peace is more than just a cease-fire.
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If you're not working, over time you're much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with casual or infrequent work. And then when you open up opportunities for people, you notice that these attitudes, orientations, habits and styles also change.
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Our suffering is not worthy the name of suffering. When I consider my crosses, tribulations, and temptations, I shame myself almost to death, thinking what are they in comparison of the sufferings of my blessed Savior Christ Jesus.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
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I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I think one of the issues about our society is that we make judgments about people on the basis of very flimsy evidence.
