Abraham Flexner Quotes
Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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I would describe my sound as classic Motown.
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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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I was Renee Zellweger's fat doppelganger. If she ever played in a movie where she needed to be fat, apparently I could be her stunt double.
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I rarely read children's books.
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Tunnel vision can kill creativity.
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Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
