Rene Dubos Quotes
Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
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It's good to play 100 per cent live - no tricks, no samples, no messing about.
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I have never gotten my nails done.
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The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
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She Venison had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.
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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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Members of Congress wear two hats: one as Washington legislator, the other as listener and community leader back home.
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It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
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People don't realize they have the power. People don't realize that if they come together, there are more of them than those who occupy the seat that I'm in right now.
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I think there are periods in this country when behavior is abhorrent: McCarthy, Watergate, Bill Clinton. It's just a question of how the checks and balances in the American system work and how leaders stand up to it or don't stand up to it.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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The whole idea of Mass Effect3 is resolving all of the biggest questions, about the Protheons and the Reapers, and being in the driver's seat to end the galaxy and all of these big plot lines, to decide what civilizations are going to live or die: All of these things are answered in Mass Effect 3.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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I am alone in possessing a key to this barbarous sideshow.
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Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.
