Aubrey de Grey Quotes
There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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It's so important to get your skin to look even, whether it's with a MAC Cosmetics glow, a Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer, or even just a solid foundation. Start off with a good prep and a good primer.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
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I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
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The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
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My work is very carefully researched. Sometimes I have to ditch an idea because I can't prove it.
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I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.
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The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.
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The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.
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Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture.
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There's nothing wrong with making the best of one's declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that we're seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.
