Carl Linnaeus Quotes
The species and the genus are always the work of nature; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.
Quotes to Explore
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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I don't think limits.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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I always liked No. 10 because I loved Zidane. He was my role model. I always wanted to play like him.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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The only thing I know is I ain't changing my brand. I know what I believe. I'm confident in what I know. And I'm gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don't like it, I understand.
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The camera looks into your soul.
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We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
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I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.
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Language is such a technology.
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The species and the genus are always the work of nature; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.
