Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Quotes
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
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If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.
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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.
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I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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Panic is a horrible thing.
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The poor are an especially important resource for innovation when they have the bravery and pluck to get out of the poor places in which they're living.
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Asking good questions is half of learning.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
