Christian de Duve Quotes

When, in 1949, I decided to join the little band of early explorers who had followed Albert Claude in his pioneering expeditions, electron microscopy was still in its infancy.

Christian de Duve

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.

Jimi Hendrix

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My one wish for humanity is that everyone can become the person they were meant to be - what are the barriers to that? Often it's crushing poverty or certain circumstances.

Tom Morello

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My father was not just a man, but a spirit dancer. You have to come with that vibration, and it is not something you can act.

Rohan Marley

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I'm not the type to cut back on hot showers, but there's no harm in hot water when it's warmed by the sun.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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When you come to a hotel room, you want it to be grand, functional and beautiful. But you don't want things that are not useful. Sometimes you go to hotels and there are all these frames and pictures of people you don't know, and you end up hiding everything in the drawer, and then housekeeping come and put it out again.

Diane von Furstenberg

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Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.

Denis McDonough

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I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.

Christine Lagarde

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Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.

Clifford D. Simak

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For me, working is the ultimate vacation, for lack of a better word. Its being in-between jobs were it becomes emotional, and brutal, and draining.

Ashley Bell

VacationMeBetterEmotionalWorking

This is the hardest job I've ever had, being a mom, but it's the most rewarding job I've ever had.

Ally Walker

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A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go back. The story in a book is humble and serviceable, available, friendly, is not switched on and off but taken up and put down, lasts a lifetime.

William Golding

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I'm trying to get my next job as a biracial action hero.

Pooch Hall

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