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Christian de Duve Quotes

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

Christian de Duve

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: belgian
Birth: October 2, 1917 - May 4, 2013

Topics

Learning Society Stop Know Become

If I wasn't an actress and I wasn't Stifler's mom, my life would be so dull.

Jennifer Coolidge

Life Mom My Life Actress Would Dull

A lot of boxers have too much on their plate.

Too Much Plate Much Lot Too Boxers

I'm a shoe girl.

Nobody has ever written as many enjoyable, fun-to-read crime novels as Agatha Christie. It's all about the storytelling and the pleasure of the reader. She doesn't want to be deep or highbrow.

Deep Nobody Want Storytelling She

'Traveling with Pomegranates' is a very personal, very honest story about my relationship with my daughter and Ann's with her mother.

Mother Daughter Relationship Story

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Learning Wisdom People Rich Sheep

It all comes together. It's - that's the way it's always worked for me with songwriting.

Together Me Way Songwriting Always

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

Power Self Test Strange Ability

I'm always striving to lose weight. And it's not a matter of wanting to be a size 3 again - I brought out my leotards, and a friend thought they were doll clothes. Being heavy isn't good for you. How long can your heart take the strain? So, I never give up, but it's hard.

Good Friend Never Give Up Heart Lose

When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.

Home Book Enough Hands Down Said

I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

Remember Shy Up Wondering Kids Much

John Dos Passos, Raymond Carver, Flaubert and William Maxwell were all very influential when I first started writing. Now, the writers I'm most interested in are the writers who are most unlike me: for example, Denis Johnson.

Me Writing Now First Started Most

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