Michael Dickinson Quotes
For many years in my laboratory and other laboratories around the world, we've been studying fly behaviors in little flight simulators. You can tether a fly to a little stick. You can measure the aerodynamic forces it's creating. You can let the fly play a little video game by letting it fly around in a visual display.

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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
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I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
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'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.
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I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!
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There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.
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I shop more than most women.
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About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.
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I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.
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The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking.
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Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.
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I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.
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I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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Just watching TV as a kid, for a long time I thought, as a young kid, obviously when I was, like, 4 or 5, I thought that people lived in the television.
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I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.
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I want to be a big model. I know I still have a lot to learn, but I believe that will be one day I do it perfectly!
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
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I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won't say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country. Run by Fidel Castro.
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For many years in my laboratory and other laboratories around the world, we've been studying fly behaviors in little flight simulators. You can tether a fly to a little stick. You can measure the aerodynamic forces it's creating. You can let the fly play a little video game by letting it fly around in a visual display.