John Polanyi Quotes

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. It is civilizing because it puts truth ahead of all else, including personal interests.

John Polanyi

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And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.

Jo Brand

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I have to get three pages done every day, and there's usually a point about 150 pages in where everything falls apart, where all the plans are for naught. The book has become something else, and I have a nervous breakdown, and then I submit to what the book has become, and I keep going, and that's a terrible and then a great time.

Andrew Sean Greer

GreatTimeKeep GoingDayBookDone

When I started making films, it was never that I had this great ambition to only do gay-themed material.

Andrew Haigh

GreatAmbitionNeverStartedOnly

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?

John Lasseter

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I want to be evil! I did play Lady Macbeth on stage to Alec Baldwin's Macbeth back in New York in 1998. But I've played a lot of characters who are so righteous and understanding. I don't want to be a goody-goody two-shoes all the time.

Angela Bassett

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People say, 'Why don't you just paint with paintbrushes?' I say that I feel more connected to my painting using my skin. It's very tribal in a way - savage!

Meredith Ostrom

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I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.

Ronaldinho

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We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

Mason Cooley

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I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Mary Shelley

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I began to think about those that were in my situation that were not able to walk out of an abusive marriage, or maybe those that did not know where to go, that were in a single headed marriage, or widows. I was thinking what it was I could do to reach out to them.

Joyce Banda

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Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Dolly Parton

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The state of Alabama can take my freedom, the state of Alabama can take my future, but the state of Alabama cannot take my joy.

Anthony Ray Hinton

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