Arthur George Gaston (A. G. Gaston) Quotes
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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I noticed recently, in the last few shows I did, that I'm starting to get people – not a large group, but quite a few people – who come to see me because they love Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
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Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life - so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.
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I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
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no matter how hard and faithfully we may try we can never compensate another for some lack in his or her life.
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We can't fight and beg from those we fight at the same time.
