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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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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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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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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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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Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.
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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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You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook. I feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard. I tend to add more in the margins. I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.
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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.
