Alexander Acosta Quotes
The discovery of penicillin was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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After 'Pitch Perfect,' I only want to be in sequels. No. 2 of whatever.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.
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When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
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I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
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Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.
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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
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Just as it got easier to use email, it will be easier to use Bitcoin as people invest in it and become more familiar with it.
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Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
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While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'
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Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.
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Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
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Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.
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When I was eighteen, River Phoenix was far and away my hero. Think of all those early great performances - My Own Private Idaho. Stand by Me. I always wanted to meet him. One night, I was at this Halloween party, and he passed me. He was beyond pale - he looked white. Before I got a chance to say hello, he was gone, driving off to the Viper Room, where he fell over and died. That's a lesson.
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Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.
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I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.
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In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.
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The discovery of penicillin was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.
