Walter Gilbert Quotes
Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
Quotes to Explore
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.
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I am jewelry and objects together. This is the Elsa Peretti name to me. It is a very good balance for me to try and create with the person in mind or with the space in mind - to imagine a bowl of fruit or something for water. It is a little bit yin and yang.
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Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.
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In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.
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I was at college studying psychology, philosophy, textiles and drama. But because I wasn't one of those all-singing, all-dancing stage-school kids, I just assumed I'd never become an actor.
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I'm not afraid to take a punch.
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Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
