Baruj Benacerraf Quotes
While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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Love is the one wild card.
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Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.
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In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where I sang and what I sang and what I wore. I wanted to write a book about an American family, the family that has produced me. The longer I live, the more I realise the incredible support and love we were given as children.
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After starting as a journalist for newspapers and magazines, I began to write books and had success with a novel and four nonfiction books for young adults.
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A war on Al-Qaeda could have been won with a decisive military strike in Tora Bora during December 2001, but American fighters at Tora Bora were refused requests for more forces when they trapped Al-Qaeda there; the Pentagon was busy husbanding resources for the Iraqi invasion.
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While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.
