Albert Szent-Györgyi Quotes
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
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I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.
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At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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If you want to be obsessed to be your best, you must get ride of the negative things that are weighing you down.
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Cancer is real-time evolution, and your body is the selective pressure.
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We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.
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My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career.
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The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.
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We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.
