Severo Ochoa Quotes
I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.
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No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
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One of my favorite things about playing Avery Jennings on 'Dog With a Blog' is that I get to play a real teenager who deals with everyday issues.
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Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.
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I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
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I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.
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You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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Latinos are learning English. That doesn't mean that they should sacrifice their original language or that they should give up this in-betweeness that is Spanglish.
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I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
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I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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The dissolution of the Party - we will not let such a tremendous, big, and glorious party be so easily crashed: this would then be the moment, when we would begin to fight on all fronts.
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When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.
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With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But there's a lot of good that could happen. We shouldn't let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music.
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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I'd end all of the wars. I'd bring all of the troops home and make sure that they're taken care of for life - for what they did protecting our country.
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Every day, you're only as good as your last show.
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Well, we could tell them that we're here on an archeological expedition.
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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.
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Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.
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I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.
