Gerald Fischbach Quotes
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I wish - I wish the peace and good for the Syrian citizen and the Syrian regime.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
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A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.
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I finally, you know, moved to Mexico City, where the film industry is. I started working there as a producer, which is a very, very valid thing for women to do, because we always produce for men, right?
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How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'
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I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.
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Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.
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No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.
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What I would not do is flaunt my Indianess by wearing a saree to work everyday, because it distracts from the job. So, I would not do that. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Social events are different. If I feel comfortable in a saree for a social event, I wear it.
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In modeling, because you're the center of attention, it builds up people's egos. Sometimes people lose touch with reality. But that happens with acting, too.
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In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
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Economic systems rise and fall just like empires. That's the kind of perspective we need to take if we hope to prosper for centuries rather than for the next quarter.
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Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.
