George Wald Quotes
Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.
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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
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Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
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'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that we have about family and about parenting.
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It's about players making choices as they play, and then dealing with the consequences of those choices. It's about you telling your story, not me telling mine. It's about you.
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Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
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I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.
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I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate - but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue.
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I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
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I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of.
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Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
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I find it hilarious that if we lie to the government, it's a crime. But if they lie to us its politics.
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No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.
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Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
