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Sidney Altman Quotes

I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: May 7, 1939

Topics

Son Immigrants Born Poor Montreal

We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.

Joe Scarborough

People Stupid Look Tax Taxes Pay

A wonderful thing happens over time. You fall in love with the sound of your own voice.

Love Time Voice You Fall Sound

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.

Lawyer Prison Clients My Own Fault

It's important for women to embrace their beauty and sexuality. Females are victimized and made to feel ashamed of their bodies, or they can't be smart and beautiful, and I try to work against that.

Melina Matsoukas

Work Beauty Women Beautiful Smart

Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District.

Literature Lake Earth Places Been

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

John Negroponte

Think Backwards Over Elections Press

Once you discover that real pirates are more interesting than fictional ones, you can't look away.

Interesting You Look More Real Away

Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.

Day Words Enough Stop Too Much Try

We took the insurance companies out of the driver's seat.

Insurance Out Driver Seat Took

Tough guys have to be tough. But tough guys don't have to be guys.

Because I'm so known as a meat-chef, when I talk about Meatless Monday some people look at me like I've lost my mind. I'm like, look, I'm not saying beef and pork is bad, I love it and I eat it six days a week.

Love Monday People Mind Me Saying

It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.

Say Become Days Because Well Whole

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