Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .
Quotes to Explore
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.
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I'm very happy alone.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be.
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Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.
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It's interesting: I've been doing this since I was 17, and it's kind of weird to see yourself grow up on television.
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I love the States and their attitudes about entertainment.
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It is my hope that visitors, artists, and students from around the world will experience all that MoMA has to offer for generations to come.
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There's just a lot of really young, entitled people. I don't think a lot of these young people have to work very hard. They're found on YouTube and, boom, thrown into the studio, so they think they can get anything they want.
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My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.
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None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.
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The less experienced a doctor is, the higher are his notions of professional dignity . . .
