Renato Dulbecco Quotes
I know mortality exists, but I cannot do anything about it. So it does not make me anxious.
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When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
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I'm not in a position to go back into public service.
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I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it.
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Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.
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Good material is good material.
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In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.
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I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.
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I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.
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Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.
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I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.
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You spend enough time with someone, you're going to have your run-ins.
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You can have the best training, but just feeling full can make you sluggish and cause you to lose.
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What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.
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Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
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We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.
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Sometimes things just aren't of their time, and they take a minute to catch on, or they find an audience later. Sometimes bizarre little films are the ones that everyone remembers later. With most big major blockbusters, people will have already forgotten about it two weeks after it came out.
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Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone.
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Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.
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Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
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A lot of people don't know the brain is 85% water, so anything that dehydrates you like caffeine or alcohol is bad for the brain.
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I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.
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I was raised in a household where being gay was like, the most normal thing. My brother is gay, all of my best friends are gay. When my brother came out of the closet, it wasn't a big deal for my family.
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I know mortality exists, but I cannot do anything about it. So it does not make me anxious.
