Severo Ochoa Quotes
Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I've just finished reading 'The Second Plane,' and I think it's some of the best non-fiction I've ever read.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
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The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.
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Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts.
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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.
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Ninety percent of my clothes are women's.
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If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.
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I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.
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The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
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No one pretends anymore that the Olympics are just about sports. It's routine to talk about what effect holding the Games in this or that capital will have on the host country's international reputation, how a nation's prestige can be raised by its medal count.
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I'm hoping to do more with my music. I did the stage musical 'Spring Awakening' recently and it reignited the love I have for singing.
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Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.
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Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
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America's 'social contract' is equal opportunity... yet we have failed in achieving that seminal goal.
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Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.
