Bruce Ames Quotes
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On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
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As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.
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It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.
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With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
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Basically you create your experience through your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality. Another way to understand this is to realize that you create your experiences through your expectations.
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I think the Republican Party is supposed to be the party of less government intrusion.
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It’s like someone who prays every night saying God’s a good listener. Just because you’re talking to us doesn’t mean we’re listening. With me and God, you never really know.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don't play music at funerals.
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A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
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I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
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I'm so bored by business and money.
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Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing?
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A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature.
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I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.
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Almost everyone stops being an artist. Most artists don't become artists. But that's another discussion. What it takes to be an artist.
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I know it sounds strange but it’s true. I mean that you’re open to life. You’re open to being surprised. You’re open to being changed by life. Most of us lose that quality in our twenties. I don’t know how you’ve managed to hang on to it, but you have.” The music was loud, and the people were loud.
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One can say everything best over a meal.
