Elie Metchnikoff Quotes
The Greek conception of a life in harmony with nature found its most complete development in the rationalism of the Renaissance and of the centuries that followed it.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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The scruffier your beard, the sharper you need to dress.
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All the managers in the world, it doesn't matter how good you are, if your players don't understand what you are looking for or what you want, it makes no sense.
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My name's Todd but I changed it in the first grade because there was another kid named Todd and I didn't understand that that was possible.
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I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman.
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The Greek conception of a life in harmony with nature found its most complete development in the rationalism of the Renaissance and of the centuries that followed it.
