Edmund de Waal Quotes
The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go.
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The problem of different sensitivities of distinct protein groups to lysosomal inhibitors has remained unsolved and may have served as an important trigger in the future quest for a non-lysosomal proteolytic system that may be involved in at least certain aspects of intracellular protein degradation.
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
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We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things.
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I love proving people wrong.
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People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.
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To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
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See, I will always shop, and that's sort of a problem. Clothes are always exploding out of my closet!
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Regardless of what you're searching, you ain't gonna find it until you include God. Because, if you have a problem with women, drugs, or whatever the case may be, the only person that can fix that problem is God.
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The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.
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If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.
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The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.
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I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.
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The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once.
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It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.
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Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
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I was quite eager to work, anytime somebody was offering me a job, if I liked the role. Because I was always very discriminating from the very beginning, in the sense that I had absolutely no problem saying no to jobs when they came along if somehow they didn't fit into my universe - whatever that was.
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The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.
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My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.
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Creating a strong business and building a better world are not conflicting goals - they are both essential ingredients for long-term success.
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The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go.
