Michael Polanyi Quotes
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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I saw 'Hamilton' when it was at the Public, and I just wept profusely in my seat because this is a form I love deeply, and to watch it be reinvented in such a genius, gifted way and executed by such a brilliant company of human beings, I was overwhelmed with not just appreciation for the piece of work itself but for the possibility.
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.
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No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
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I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.
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When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.
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When I earnt my first money, I went to a shop and bought jeans and a top. But then I wore them both for such a long time that finally my model agency said, 'You should buy something else!' I was saving the money because it was the first time I'd ever had any.
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There is properly no history; only biography.
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There is a big difference between an honest mistake made in a moment of spiritual weakness and a willfull decision to disobey persistently the commandments of God. Those who deliberately choose to violate God's commandments or ignore the standards of the Church, even when promising themselves and others that someday they will be strong enough to repent, are stepping into a dangerously slippery slope upon which many have lost their spiritual footing.
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Sex got me into trouble from the age of fifteen: I'm hoping that by the time I'm seventy I'll straighten it out.
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From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink skin, a sunny smile - always singing to himself as he goes - a happy, rosy-cheeked old fellow, with a rosy-cheeked mind I should like to throw mud at him.
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I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling.
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I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.
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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
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If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.
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Every team has absentees. In this type of match we needed to try harder.
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You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry
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In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that become the center of a person's life.
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Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.
