Walter Gilbert Quotes
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I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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I'm such a happy, easygoing person.
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I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
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The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
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I'm fighting the very best and I'm beating the very best. I'm looking to knock everybody out.
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Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?
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The best project is one that asks a novel question.
