Elizabeth Blackburn Quotes
Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but not all of it.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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Women empowerment does not mean you create complex among men. Then it will take 20 more years to empower men. It is all about evolving as a soul, as a human being. It does not mean that you become a sexist.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.
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Theatre is live content, and you can tell if you have worked your audience.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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For the most part, I was surprised by the representation of female characters onscreen. I do hope that when we include more female storytellers, we will have more of the women that I recognize in my day to day life.
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Post-human intelligence will develop hypercomputers with the processing power to simulate living things - even entire worlds. Perhaps advanced beings could use hypercomputers to surpass the best 'special effects' in movies or computer games so vastly that they could simulate a world, fully, as complex as the one we perceive ourselves to be in.
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The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.
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Our philosophy is always to search for the best quality. That is something our father taught us. It's one way to be different from your competitors. You can try to be cheaper, or you can try to be better.
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Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but not all of it.
