George Amos Dorsey Quotes
Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in.
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Orange juice from concentrate is labeled. Food coloring Red #5 is labeled. Fish are labeled as to whether they've been previously frozen. To a consumer, there's no plausible reason why these factors should be on a food ingredient label while the presence of GMOs shouldn't be.
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I'm a serial dater. When I see someone I like, we go on multiple dates.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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Harry Potter is awesome.
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Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
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I feel betrayed by own mother.
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Whatever you want me to play, I'll just do it.
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I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.
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That was the most important thing to me: making sure 'Gardner Elliot' was likeable and funny and interesting. I took my time before filming to chat with Peter, the director, to create this character.
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I have not heard a Martha Stewart album yet. But, you know, it could happen.
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I guess if you're independent, not afraid of much, and extremely stylish, that makes you a pretty good candidate for being a New Yorker.
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It's amazing to see the Earth in its glory down there.
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But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
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Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.
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I think working with the primal elements of fire and earth appealed greatly to my father because of the almost magical results.
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I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.
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I like reading for things. I've shown up for jobs before where I haven't read for them, and there's something kind of intimidating about that - where the first words they'll hear from me are when they call "action." There's something about actually going in and earning a part and going, like, "Okay, they really liked what I did, and so I'm on the right track."
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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Every movement, to stay alive - a very difficult thing to do historically - has to find a way to harness that initial surge of emotion and turn it to the hard, steady, un-sexy work of recruiting new members, strategizing, negotiating with those in power, keeping itself going.
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Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and the nature of the environment they live in.
