William Bateson Quotes
When I look at a dividing cell I feel as an astronomer might do if he beheld the formation of a double star: that an original act of creation is taking place before me.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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When discs form around stars, there is interaction of angular momentum between disc, planets and parent star, and this interaction affects the rotation of the parent star, and that will affect the lithium abundance.
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I'd love to be a pop star - at heart.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
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I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.
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The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
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I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.
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I think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who would think that Larry the Cable Guy would go to Harlem to play basketball? And I was received like a rock star. It was amazing! There were people everywhere. There were guys walking by yelling, 'Git 'r done!'
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Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.
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Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
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I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.
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When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.
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I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.
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I had no dream of being a movie star.
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I mean, we’re the end result of all that evolution, aren’t we? Here we are, you and I today, and we are the end result of that creation. And so I think we’ve all got God in us, basically.
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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
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Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
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When I look at a dividing cell I feel as an astronomer might do if he beheld the formation of a double star: that an original act of creation is taking place before me.
