Lewis Thomas Quotes
We hanker to go on, even in the face of plain evidence that long, long lives are not necessarily pleasurable in the kind of society we have arranged thus far. We will be lucky if we can postpone the search for new technologies for a while, until we have discovered some satisfactory things to do with the extra time.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?'
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I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.
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I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them.
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I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.
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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
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All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.
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I want to caucus in Iowa. I'll caucus all over the state. I don't caucus in California. You don't caucus where you live. It doesn't look good.
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I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places.
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We have filmmakers who make films with some kind of responsibility and take cinema seriously like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Prakash Jha. But now these people also take stars... Without stars they cannot work.
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(on his firing from Two and a Half Men) I would have fired my ass too. Well, maybe not like they did.
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Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
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Let there be light! said Liberty, And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!
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It helps if you don't date other actors, but actresses are beautiful. How can you say no?
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We hanker to go on, even in the face of plain evidence that long, long lives are not necessarily pleasurable in the kind of society we have arranged thus far. We will be lucky if we can postpone the search for new technologies for a while, until we have discovered some satisfactory things to do with the extra time.
