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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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
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We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realized that we were eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and said, "Wait a minute, we love these sheep-they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?" It was the last time we ever did.
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Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
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Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day.
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Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease - its scientific name is travelitis furiosus - is carried by a germ called prosperity.
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The Internet is the great highway of the modern communication, free and independent.
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The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.
