Gertrude B. Elion Quotes

That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.

Gertrude B. Elion

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• I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

  

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• Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

  

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• I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.

  

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• Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.

  

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• Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

  

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• To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

  

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• A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

  

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• I think the only time that I worry about looking good is on the red carpet.

  

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• I think food is getting lighter and healthier because people eat out so often. It's about quality ingredients because that is the root of good food.

  

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• I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.

  

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• Knowing there is a capable back-up willing to give it a try always makes you feel better.

  

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• My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers.

  

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• If I just wear something because I feel like myself and I'm comfortable, that's okay - and that goes even for more edgy things. But if I try too much, or if I even try, it doesn't work. It doesn't feel natural, and I feel very uncomfortable.

  

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• I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

  

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• I'm a spiritual person.

  

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• I would rather eat broken glass and drink iodine than do the dishes.

  

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• One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

  

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• Nowadays, my mood ungoverned, I'm free to think the most outrageous things, such as: might it not be a good idea to insist that drug companies give their preparations names that tell the user what they really do?

  

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• The Russians are bent on establishing both a presence in the Western Hemisphere, and they're looking for opportunities to expand military cooperation: sell equipment, air bases, as well as intelligence gathering facilities.

  

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• When you're 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether it's heartbreak or death or love, obviously it's going to seem like a much bigger deal.

  

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• That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.

  

  Gertrude B. Elion
  • Thinking
  • Disease
  • Points