Sydney Brenner Quotes
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Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
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We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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Everything I do now is a first.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
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I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.
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For me to be with someone, he's got to be fit. Or at least doing something he loves. Following your passion - whether it's hiking or sports or whatever - is super sexy.
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I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.
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I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.
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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
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I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as well as drama.
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The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
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I love my friends and family, but playing, that's my DNA.
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How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact.
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The internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.
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The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.
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This ocean circulation, a northbound current that sinks and then moves southbound, tends to go through multi-decadal changes.
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To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.
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That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.
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I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
