William Osler Quotes
We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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I'm high energy.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.
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Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.
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Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
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I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.
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'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.
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I think what I bring to the table is a lot of heart, a lot of energy, and somebody that works hard. Somebody who hates to lose.
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In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
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I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.
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Strike lustily for life, and hurry not your blows, but let each toll.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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I started a publishing company just so I could get the phone numbers of everyone that I'd ever admired.
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In the 1970s, I did a Ph.D. with Fred Sanger in Cambridge who was in the process of inventing ways to map what's inside DNA. He later won the Nobel Prize.
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We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
