Claude Bernard Quotes
All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
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When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.
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Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that's in your head.
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There are some people who fit into categories very well. But then there are a lot who don't.
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Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.
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All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.
