Elias James Corey Quotes

From the ages of five to twelve, I attended the Saint Laurence O'Toole elementary school in Lawrence, a city next to Methuen, and was taught by sisters of the Catholic order of Notre Dame de Namour. I enjoyed all my subjects there. I do not remember ever learning any science, except for mathematics.

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• America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Artist
  • Talent

• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

  

  Kanye West
  • Music
  • Power
  • Basketball

• It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Good
  • Family
  • You

• No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Nothing
  • More
  • Him

• We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • World
  • Famous
  • Rich

• It's been tough for me being away from the game.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Game
  • Tough
  • Away

• Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • World
  • Black
  • Longevity

• Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Why
  • Poverty

• Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Flower

• I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Doing
  • Television
  • Excited

• The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Learn
  • Goal
  • Company

• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Death

• I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • End
  • Dogs
  • Cats

• Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hope
  • Joy
  • Failure

• There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

  

  Sam Richards
  • United States
  • Odd
  • United

• Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

  

  Kate Adie
  • People
  • Children
  • Young

• Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Conflict
  • Scripture
  • Then

• Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • Important
  • Future

• The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.

  

  Pele
  • World
  • Remember
  • Father

• I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.

  

  Ana Ortiz
  • City

• Ist das Leben nicht hundert Mal zu kurz, sich in ihm- zu langweilen?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

• From the ages of five to twelve, I attended the Saint Laurence O'Toole elementary school in Lawrence, a city next to Methuen, and was taught by sisters of the Catholic order of Notre Dame de Namour. I enjoyed all my subjects there. I do not remember ever learning any science, except for mathematics.

  

  Elias James Corey
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