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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I often think it's comical
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Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.
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If our biological imperative is to pass our genes to the next generation, our moral imperative has to be to try, before we become corpses, to leave them a planet they can survive on.
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In the NBA, there is a guy guarding you, and you really have to try shooting over him.
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I suppose the best advice I ever got, frankly the advice that changed my life, came from my uncle who told me to go to drama school and study acting instead of taking a job, because he said the job would always be there.
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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.
