August Krogh Quotes
The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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It takes a great man to be a good listener.
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I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.
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I'm just a normal young lad who plays football.
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Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
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It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.
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A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.
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If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
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My parents have both done some music stuff. My family was very artist-friendly, so that was encouraging.
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For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.
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Birds exist to teach us things about the sky.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
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I was a gymnast when I was little, like 8, 9, 10.
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The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.
