Ernest L. Boyer Quotes
Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.
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Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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I've only ever tried to be me.
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Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.
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'Luke Cage' is about a reluctant superhero who lives in the shadows in Harlem. He has to decide if he's going to step up and fight for the heart of the city and defend the people against Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes, my character, who kinda wants to keep everything in order and intact. I'm the criminal element in the story.
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What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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And his money he cannot eat.
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One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen's claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard.
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Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.
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Suppose we took a thousand negatives and made a gigantic montage: a myriad-faceted picture containing the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city – that would be my favorite picture.
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God knows I tried to make it earlier in life, but with all due respect to myself, nothing I ever did was any good.
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Gentlemen prefer blondes.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.
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I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
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Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing
