Sydney Brenner Quotes
The most important thing today is for young people to take responsibility, to actually know how to formulate an idea and how to work on it. Not to buy into the so-called apprenticeship.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.
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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
Ford Frick -
He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.
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I have friends who are movie stars, and I think it's just as hard a job as being a working actor. But it's a different job, and it's not the one I want.
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I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at peace and I am comforted because I know that He's on the throne. That is good enough for me.
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My son makes me want to be better so that I can be there for him.
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Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal.
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This is the thing that I was born to do.
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'And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.'
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It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.
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People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
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Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.
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Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let's say, over western Europe. You just can't use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.
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I'm very, very amateur, which is funny because I'm not in the amateur leagues.
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I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.
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Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?
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I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are "true." And yet in fiction, I think there is a lot of deeper truth, too.
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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The most important thing today is for young people to take responsibility, to actually know how to formulate an idea and how to work on it. Not to buy into the so-called apprenticeship.
