Michael Smith Quotes
I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.
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I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.
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I believe I am a moderate Democrat: I am pro-business and also progressive.
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You have to have a globally competitive mining dispensation.
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But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I never know.
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For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.
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Come and look for Peterkin, poor little Peterkin. No one would believe us if we told them what we know, Or they wouldn't grieve for Peterkin, merry little Peterkin...
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I write about people I think are interesting, and then I discuss it with my editor, and she decides if she thinks it will be interesting to children as well. If I have no great interest in the subject, I find the work to be terribly boring. And if I find the person interesting, I love the research part and, by extension, the writing as well.
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Scientists generally are really chicken about getting involved in some kind of dispute. As a broadcaster, I find it very difficult to urge them, if it is a controversial subject. They don't want to have science being portrayed badly.
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Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.
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I grew up in a very literate, very independent household where people spoke their ideas and were very supportive of helping each other find their own way.
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For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
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It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me.
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I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.'
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Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.
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I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship.
