Michael Polanyi Quotes
The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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I feel very comfortable with my trajectory because I do have a life; I can go on the subway, you know? And I've been able to do that my entire career, and I have friends who are huge movie stars and can't go on the subway, and I feel like that sucks.
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Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.
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When I first started performing, the only community that truly got what I was trying to do was the LGBTQ community.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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'24' had to withstand accusations of being right-wing, but 'Homeland' is a far more liberal show.
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To be honest, whenever I go to shoots, or I'm on set, it really makes makeup special and allows me to have so much more fun with it – I don't wear it on an everyday basis, because I like my skin to breathe.
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I had the most fun on '3rd Rock'. It was a great show to work on.
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Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.
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Good people are seldom fully recognised during their lifetimes, and here, there are serious problems of corruption. One day it will be realised that my findings should have been acknowledged. It was difficult, but she always smiled when asked why she went on when recognition eluded her in her own country.
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Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
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she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.
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The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.
