Rene Dubos Quotes
But solving problems of disease is not the same thing as creating health and happiness. (...) Health and happiness are the expression of the manner in which the individual responds and adapts to the challenges that he meets in everyday life.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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The constant attention is what is so difficult.
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To go back means defeat.
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Whatever I think of, that's what I do. I wake up and think, 'I want to buy a car', I buy a car. I wake up and be like, 'I just want to lay in bed with my girl', I do that. I wake up and want to rap, I rap. So whatever I think of.
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I love Michelle Williams. I think she's extraordinary. I was such a fan of 'Blue Valentine,' and I heard stories about how Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams worked on that. They lived together for a period of time as rehearsal. From nine in the morning to five at night, living in a space together. The work is really awe-inspiring.
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I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
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You're defined by your older brothers' or sisters' music.
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I don't take vacations.
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If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.
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When you're eight or nine years old and you look at the TV set men are landing on the moon - anything is possible. And that is something we need to not lose sight of, is that the inspiration and permission to dream is immense. … It's important to have specific dreams.
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I have no secret thoughts... Or rather, they're not secret because I've withheld them - if they're unknown, it's because no one asked.
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Desirelessness towards the seen and the unseen gives the consciousness of mastery.
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Instead of a government with steel in its backbone, we've got one with Steel in its pocket.
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I had been to Europe that summer, and they said, 'Can anybody verify that?'
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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.
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One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.
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I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.
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But solving problems of disease is not the same thing as creating health and happiness. (...) Health and happiness are the expression of the manner in which the individual responds and adapts to the challenges that he meets in everyday life.
