Gary Taubes Quotes
To cultivate the faculty of observation must then be the first duty of those who would excel in any scientific pursuit, and to none is this study more necessary than to the student of medicine.
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I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.
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Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
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I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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When there's justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it's okay for me to say those things.
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Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.
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I don't have to be making a lot of money or living in a fancy house.
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America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.
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Every day, you're only as good as your last show.
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The general market wants what I do.
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Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.
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I grew up on Long Island, and from as early as I can remember, as far back as first grade, I had two real passions - one of them was putting on plays, and the other was journalism. I was directing plays and editing school papers from first grade on, all the way through college.
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Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.
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When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.
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The reason statins are so helpful is that even those who are trying their best to reach their target and still can't do it have something else to rely on.
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Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.
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I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.
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Don't touch me, I'm diabetic.
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When there are conflicts of observation, when experiments cannot be replicated, scientists may then retreat to a study of the various specific observations so as to explain the conflict, in the course of which they would make use of the concept of observation, or of some specification of that concept.
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To cultivate the faculty of observation must then be the first duty of those who would excel in any scientific pursuit, and to none is this study more necessary than to the student of medicine.
