Christiaan Barnard Quotes
I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.Christiaan Barnard
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
Val McDermid -
I love my wife, I love my kids.
Ted McGinley -
The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
Gavid Hood -
All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
Tammy Baldwin -
Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.
J. I. Packer -
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston
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In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
Paige VanZant -
Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door.
Katha Pollitt -
Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
Harrison Ford -
Little boys have amazing minds.
Ferdinand Marcos -
It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
Wanda Jackson
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I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
Natalie Babbitt -
I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
Danica McKellar -
It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
Zane Grey -
I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
Patrick deWitt -
I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.
Damien Chazelle -
I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
Wayne Brady
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Hillary Clinton did better among working-class whites when she's running against Barack Hussein Obama. How is she doing now against an older, a professor type, who seems very unthreatening, very likable.
Chris Matthews -
Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
John Calvin -
I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
Aaron Paul -
An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital.
Karl Marx -
It is odd that Edouard Manet with his reputation as an innovator, who has survived such storms of criticism, should suddenly be seen as a classicist. It just proves the imbecility of the public, for he has always been a classic painter.
Berthe Morisot -
I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.
Christiaan Barnard