Luis Federico Leloir Quotes
A logical extension of our work on glycogen was to investigate the formation of starch in plants.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!
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I only know two to three people that I grew up with in advertising in the 1960s who are married to the same women.
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When I speak at events, I often wear my dad's ties and my mom's earrings. It's a small, almost secret way of having them with me when I'm up there onstage, talking to a roomful of strangers. It makes me feel safe.
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We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.
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A logical extension of our work on glycogen was to investigate the formation of starch in plants.
