Sidney Altman Quotes
About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a 'Led Zeppelin IV' cassette tape in the garage, and it was just amazing-sounding music, not like anything I'd heard before. I remember thinking: 'Well, if God created music, why is his music in church not as good as this?'
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I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.
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It is one thing to train officers on fighting crime. It is a whole other thing to train them to build friendships and relationships, which are integral to fighting crime. This takes time, effort, and patience on the part of police officers.
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Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.
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We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.
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For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
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There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.
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Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?
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The outlaw uses the knife to separate the persona from the self. The outlaw uses the warrior’s sword to cut through his own character armor to destroy the defense mechanisms that have kept him imprisoned within the citadel of personality and role.
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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
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I always finish off my look with a spritz of Vera Wang Pink Princess.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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I don't know what to do anymore. I just wanted to make him earn it on the outside.
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About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
