Michael Specter Quotes

We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal, we begin to attract entire colonies of bacteria. By the time a child can crawl, he has been blanketed by an enormous, unseen cloud of microorganisms - a hundred trillion or more.

Michael Specter

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There is but one nation on the globe from which we have anything serious to apprehend, but that is the most powerful that now exists or ever did exist. I refer to Great Britain.

John C. Calhoun

GreatPowerfulSeriousNowAnything

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

Trent Reznor

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If we don't tell our own stories, no one else will.

Mira Nair

WillTellOwnStoriesOurElse

To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.

Lukas Foss

CreativityCreativeQuestionsKind

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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I grew up playing classical violin and a lot of Bach and Mozart and the things that Einstein loved.

Johnny Flynn

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You can't talk about defeating insurgencies in the same way that you can with a conventional army.

Des Browne

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Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.

Chris Brown

ManLosingMeTalkingBecoming

As a child, I copied Tenniel's illustrations from 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' obsessively, particularly his drawing of the white rabbit in waistcoat and frockcoat, umbrella tucked under one arm and a fob watch in paw, a look of suppressed panic in his eye.

Chris Riddell

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I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.

Brenda Lee

GirlAmericaNutsLikeEveryAbout

I kind of resent the idea that the whole world has to be interested in the American elections.

Arundhati Roy

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If I can win a Cup race, that would pretty much show my whole career that I've been able to win in everything I've gotten into.

Scott Pruett

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