Abraham Flexner Quotes
We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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I definitely want to design clothes at one point.
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We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
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I think that for me, it's God, family and Yahoo - in that order.
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Belief systems thrive in circumstances of collision. They are energized by their opposites.
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The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.
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We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.
