Rene Dubos Quotes
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population growth, to the dirt, pollution and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I love Snoop. I worked with him on 'Old School,' and he's very accessible. He's very kind. He's always nice to everyone, to the crew. He's always got something positive to say. He's very childlike and loves to come and play. So, I had fun working with him.
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My brain doesn't like to be quiet.
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I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too much debt, too many Washington takeovers, and they want to provide a check and a balance to what they see as a runaway, overreaching Washington government.
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It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.
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'When will you stop this metaphysical nonsense?' said Edward wearily. 'But I suppose you’ve no other way to look at the matter, born as you were in an age of superstitious piety.'
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The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple trees, the eternal sorrow that never sleeps of great Mexico.
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Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.
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The master enjoined not austerity, but moderation. If we truly enjoyed things, he claimed, we would be spontaneously moderate. Asked why he was so opposed to ascetical practices, he replied, 'Because they produce pleasure-haters who always become people-haters - rigid and cruel.'
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I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.
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I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.
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I don't think running for office is anything I'm prepared for or could even prepare myself for.
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There has come about a general public awareness that America is not automatically, and effortlessly, and unquestionably the leader of the world in science and technology. This comes as no surprise to those of us who have watched and tried to warn against the steady deterioration in the teaching of science and mathematics in the schools for the past quarter century. It comes as no surprise to those who have known of dozens of cases of scientists who have been hounded out of jobs by silly disloyalty charges, and kept out of all professional employment by widespread blacklisting practices.
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Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.
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Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
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Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population growth, to the dirt, pollution and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.
