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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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
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I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
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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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I was on some TV shows with Lady Gaga the other week, and you could see the difference in reaction between her fans and my fans outside. She comes out, and she looks like a star, and the reaction is just tears, crying, people going, 'Oh my God, Oh my God.' My fans are like: 'Alright, Ed.'
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Your legacy makes a difference.
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When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs.
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I grant that people are generally uncomfortable with how fast privacy issues are changing in the world, but Google Glass is not going to move the needle on that.
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I still love playing live because a good gig is the most exciting thing ever.
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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.
