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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I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done.
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I don't believe in religion. I believe the example of Christ. I believe in the example of a perfect human being that if you can live for other people away from yourself you will be happy. If you live for yourself you will be unhappy and then you will not be able to sleep or do anything else... finally. I think insofar, and I really believe this, insofar as people do live with the other fellow [God] in mind, they have to be happy you know? Because it raises you up.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.
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We can't fight and beg from those we fight at the same time.
