Sidney Altman Quotes
The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.
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If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. … I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.
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Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.
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The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.
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We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.
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I just went to work for a vampire, was scared by a spider, and got knocked down by a tanning bomb. And that’s just my day, not my week.
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I am deeply shocked by the news of this bomb, and I extend my sympathies to all who have been injured. Details of exactly what has happened and the nature of the injuries are not clear.
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To eat or be eaten, to escape or be takena matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice.
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I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.
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It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.
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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
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The art of moviemaking seems to get thrown away. The cinematography is gone, and the look of everything becomes of little importance. You lose the memorable images; everything looks like it's been shot at night with a security camera.
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Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.
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The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals.
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What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.
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The price pattern reminds you that every movement of importance is but a repetition of similar price movements, that just as soon as you can familiarize yourself with the actions of the past, you will be able to anticipate and act correctly and profitably upon forthcoming movements.
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I tell you what I really fear. I fear aeroplanes. When the flight's all right and smooth I'm still thinking, 'what if the engine blow up?' 'What if a fool's got a bomb on it?'
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I’m saying language is a passport. A dubious, dangerous passport too.
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...one person can come along and change your life, and that being a misfit, as I was, doesn't mean you won't find friends and your place in the world.
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But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying 'no' to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.
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You can always make a loan at a bank if you can show sufficient evidence that you don't need it.
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The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.
