Leon Kass Quotes
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I don't have much time for shopping so I pick things up when I can. My favorite labels are APC, Isabel Marant and Agnes B because the clothes are cut small and have a simplicity to them.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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For once I want to have a relationship outside the public eye.
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I did go through a phase where I played videogames quite often, but I haven't in a few years.
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It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.
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I try to win every tournament.
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I'd always had the concern that being in commercials would affect my credibility when I was getting started as a TV and film actor.
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I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.
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During my time at high school and university in Kreuzlingen and St. Gallen, I traveled around Europe looking at art, visiting artists, studios, galleries and museums.
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I've been dancing since I was seven, but I never really developed a regimen until I was on Broadway and responsible for a professional performance every night.
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Jane Campion is a tough director.
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There is no system in the world or any school in the country that is better than its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood of the success of schools.
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The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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After briefly considering whether to study biology or medicine, I opted for medicine and initiated my studies at the University of Bonn. The first two years were particularly hard, since I simultaneously decided to attend lectures and courses in biology as well.
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The way we see the world is not actually the world in itself. What we see is our idea of it. The truth is, we have no notion of what the world is other than through the veils of our perception.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.
