Nicolas Steno Quotes
We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and ought still more to admire their disposition in the Brain, where an infinite number of them contained in a very small Space, do each execute their particular Offices without confusion or disorder.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
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If I do a certain number of ads, I have to do a personal project in between, just for my own sanity. I still consider myself a punk-rock kid.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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Our D.V.R.s make up the schedule of the shows that we're passionate about. You want Jon Stewart? You've got it. Your D.V.R. will give that to you, as opposed to making the destination and the choice to spend that evening with a network.
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With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
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I love big summer dresses, and it sucks because I'm such a little person, so I always have to be very specific about which ones I put on.
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That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
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I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis.
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At the risk of being repetitious, I would remind the group that we have found the highest frequency of induced abortion in the group which, in general, most frequently uses contraceptives.
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Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
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I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.
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I have been interested in beauty from an early age. My sister used to put face masks on me and do me up with my mother's makeup!
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I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.
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The government shouldn't step in at the first stage and create land banks. Industry should buy the land as much as they can, and if they get stuck, then the government should step in.
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I was born in Mexico, I am from Mexico City.
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I'm sometimes a cartoonist, and there's an audience for that, and I'm sometimes an illustrator, and there's an audience for that.
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I get lost in my right brain, especially in creative things.
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The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.
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We need only view a Dissection of that large Mass, the Brain, to have ground to bewail our Ignorance...We admire...the Fibres of every Muscle, and ought still more to admire their disposition in the Brain, where an infinite number of them contained in a very small Space, do each execute their particular Offices without confusion or disorder.
