Elizabeth Blackburn Quotes
Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.
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I didn't want to feel constrained, so I took on the Mutants.
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time.
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Every time I do a project, it always comes with a level of discomfort and not knowing how to do it.
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I want to be one of those ones: a legend.
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Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child.
