Lewis Thomas Quotes
If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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We were descended from royalty.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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Elections are about fucking your enemies. Winning is about fucking your friends.
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
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It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.
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For example, you have these grotesque, hilarious, profane ghosts in the book [Lincoln in the Bardo]. Even the concept of talking ghosts is, from an aesthetic point of view, grotesque. But you seem compelled by that risk in order to get to the other end of the equation.
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The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.
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If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do.
