Albert Szent-Györgyi Quotes
Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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Few things are as essential as education.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
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Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
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I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet.
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Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.
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What I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing-cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing-cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.
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I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
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There is a difference between being arrogant about yourself as a person and being confident that your work has some value. The first is unattractive; the second is healthy and natural.
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I think I need to be taken away, dropped in some territory with just a lot of loud guys.
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I think that we can often be eating and not even really acknowledging that we are putting something about our mouths. I think there is lot to be said about eating dinner and not having the distraction of the TV.
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It never got ugly, although it got a bit strange at times.
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Experienced well-being is on average unaffected by marriage, not because marriage makes no difference to happiness, but because it changes some aspects of life for the better and others for the worse.
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I wanted to study painting and become a painter, but I had a huge flip-over in my life when I was about 18 or 19. I was part of a criminal environment; I got arrested and convicted, and I had to start thinking in a new way.
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I grew up always wanting to be a dancer, and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways. I saw myself traveling with a company or making my own work and being a little weird. I wasn't thinking about the business side of anything; I just knew that I loved dancing.
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Above all, I am motivated by the most mysterious drive we ever experience -that of love - I don't think there's any influence on my life that compares with love.
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The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain-but he can't.
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Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.
