Edward Boyden Quotes
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
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Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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Let's set aside political gamesmanship and work together for the sake of our children.
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Did the others here feel the disquiet he felt? Had they a reason for concealing that disquiet? And another question: Where was 'here'?He shut that one down sharply.Deal with one thing at a time. Grope your way gently to the abyss. Categorize your knowledge.
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My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
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What we need is to understand that women won't often apply for a job until they're almost 95% qualified. So they tick the box and say, 'If I can't do it all, I can't be qualified.' Men look at the same job, and as long as they get to about 60%, they'll apply.
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Never, in all of the seventy billion humans who have walked this planet since the beginning of time has there been anyone exactly like you.
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Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
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It's surprising that the world is understandable to the extent that it is.
