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Sydney Brenner Quotes

Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: british
Birth: January 13, 1927

Topics

Time World Easy Living Real Head

Acting-wise, I love Helena Bonham Carter. I love Kate Winslet. I love Angelina Jolie when she was 'Girl, Interrupted' Angelina Jolie. There isn't anybody that I can definitely point to and be like her. Because I've never felt like I've been able to relate to the women that are famous.

Jessica Williams

Love Women Girl Famous I Can Never

I figure there are a few actors like Marlon Brando, George C. Scott and Laurence Olivier who have been touched by the hand of God. I'm in the next bunch.

God Hand Next Been Who Like

I am in no way a confident person - except when it comes to what I'm writing. It's just like, this is what I can do, and I have what I think is a pretty strong voice, for better or worse. It's the style I like to write in.

Style I Am Writing Think Better

It's definitely an issue if the actor has passed away without stating any intention or desire about how his or her likeness should be dealt with. Then it falls to their estate. That's a problem that will start solving itself. Now the technology exists, and actors are aware of this and can make their wishes known.

Technology Start Problem Intention

On this Twitter thing, at least five people a day say 'bring back the mullet.' My wife told me I'm not allowed. Troy Tulowitzki wants me to grow a rat-tail for his charity. I was like, 'What the heck is a rat-tail?'

Day Wife People Me Charity Grow

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

Guilty Conscience Anyone Generally

In high school, I had two friends that were suffering from cancer. I would go and sing for them while they were in hospital, and I sang at their services after they passed.

Matthew Morrison

School Suffering High School Friends

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

Good Idea Directing Commercials Had

I voted against the climate-change legislation. Not that I don't believe we should move to a clean-energy economy, and it can be good for South Dakota's economy to do so, but it was started out as a very partisan bill in the committee.

Stephanie Herseth

Good Believe Economy Committee Out

What started happening really quickly after 9/11 and the construction of this 'War on Terror' business is that I saw all kinds of parallels between the way that was being constructed and the way that prisons had been constructed since the early 1980s.

Business War Construction Early Way

The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.

Today Memories Peace War Cold Over

Typical mergers happen when there are two competitors coming together, and they reduce overhead.

Together Two Happen Coming Mergers

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