Albert Szent-Györgyi Quotes
Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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Family comes out whenever we know it's gonna be steady on a run that's continuous.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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Men are irrelevant.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.
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Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.
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Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
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I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.
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I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.
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My parents were singularly uninterested in me. My father was too self-centered and too busy with his own practice to pay a lot of attention to me, and my mother was probably deflected more by my sister.
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A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation. He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribed in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection.
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Milk many cows but make your own butter.
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Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.
