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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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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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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It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.
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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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If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.
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A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their own names for the stars, and have star charts just as accurate as the Chinese star charts, which are more ancient than the European star charts or even the Arabic ones or the star charts of the New World civilizations. Everybody’s got their own cosmology. Everybody’s got their own description of the universe.
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The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.
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The rut I was in with the people that I had been previously been with it took the heart right out of me.
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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.
