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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Whether in my book or not, every man is tabernacled in every other and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world.
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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 want to be a child doctor. A pediatry... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.
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When Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful. The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves.
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To control your nerves, you must have a positive thought in your mind.
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Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself.
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Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.
