Bruce Ames Quotes
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My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'
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A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.
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History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
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I want to feel sexy and pretty and young as long as I can.
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Anyone who has read my books will know that I don't tend to use guides when I am travelling. It's not a pride thing, but it is certainly a fact.
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Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.
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Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he a mere 'accident' in the course of German history.
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Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.
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Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of psychologists, both in this country and in America, still follow his lead. The result, as a cynical onlooker might be tempted to say, is that psychology, having first bargained away its soul and then gone out of its mind, seems now, as it faces an untimely end, to have lost all consciousness.
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The Jain religion in India teaches that because all life is essentially interrelated and interconnected, all living beings should be considered sacred and be respected. This belief forms the basis of the doctrine of ahimsa, which has been translated into English variously as "reverence for life," "nonviolence," and "dynamic compassion."
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I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream; it strengthens my creativity.
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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
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It's so easy to hate something. It's harder to genuinely appreciate something.
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It is my honor to be a part of this publishing powerhouse where songwriters are not only heard and understood but respected and taken care of.
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It was as if she had emitted a pulse of radiation that reached him even where he stood, and it bathed him and it burned him.
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I had a lumpectomy. It wasn't that bad. Six and a half weeks of radiation.
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Radiation burns. Men did this to me. Men and their wars.
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Folic acid deficiency does the same thing as radiation.
