Christian de Duve Quotes

Although attracted by the humanities, I had chosen medicine as a career, seduced by the image of the 'man in white' dispensing care and solace to the suffering. But science was lurking around the corner, in the form of an unpaid student assistantship in the laboratory of physiology.

Christian de Duve

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ScienceManSufferingMedicineCare

That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'

Jim Carrey

MorningMoneyMeProblemYouDown

There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.

Andrew Vachss

TechnologySocietyInternetOthers

So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.

Alphonso Jackson

ResponsibilityWellSureMakingRuns

Do you need to train two hours a day? Probably not. The reason why my celebrity clients have to train two hours a day is because their endurance level is so strong. For Madonna to get results and keep results, it's like a professional athlete training - she has to push harder.

Tracy Anderson

DayTrainingStrongPushYouTrain

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.

Mick Jagger

TeaThreeNastyTakeGotHabits

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel de Cervantes

LifeMadnessToo MuchSeeMayMuch

Well, the first thing I wanted to be was a carpenter. Then I wanted to be a painter and then a singer. It was when I first saw 'Lawrence of Arabia' that I wanted to be an actor.

Michael Pitt

ActorFirstSingerCarpenterSaw

I'd be lying if I said that any part of writing is easy for me, but I have always found that setting comes more naturally to me than, say, writing action scenes.

Molly Antopol

MeWritingActionEasySaidSay

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.

Joshua Bell

FamilyProfessionalNobodyUpGrew

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

Aretha Franklin

GoodSoulMeSongAlienAnything

I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.

Ariel Gore

PositiveFamilyScienceTreeHappy

Maybe scarcity isn't always a bad thing. Maybe scarcity is something to seek out, to fabricate for oneself.

Anthony Doerr

BadAlwaysOutSeekSomethingMaybe

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