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Lewis Thomas Quotes

We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 25, 1913 - December 3, 1993

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Nature Good Think Too Much Way Up

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

Music Art Financial Difficulties Us

Most times, at the movies, my stress levels are ratcheted up so high that I can barely sit through the full production without excusing myself, clutching people next to me or crawling out of my seat, incapacitated by the unknown.

Myself Stress People Me I Can High

I dare you to show me one example where I haven't discharged my responsibility seriously, professionally and appropriately.

Responsibility Me You Dare Seriously

I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies.

Think Movies More Watching Up Been

The whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even, one might say, elevate, has altered under commercial pressure, perhaps, into a different kind of purpose, which is to divert and distract and entertain.

Purpose Pressure Journalism Say Kind

I guess if I wrote a book one day, it would be about hair.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Day Hair Book One Day Would Guess

Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

Good Horse Try Endangered Species

When the Democrats were investigating the U.S. attorneys that were accused of responding to political pressure, that I joined Senator Leahy in efforts to get transparency of all of the documents.

Pressure Political Transparency Get

AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' is the greatest meshing of vocal, guitar, and content I've ever heard. That's what I aspire to.

Guitar Hell Content Aspire Greatest

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

Attitude Gratitude Step Forward You

If there's anything about longevity in television, it's about knowing what to take and what to turn down, and what to stop.

Television Down Stop Knowing Turn

I never prayed for no money, and I never prayed for no fame. I said, 'I'll take care of that myself. You just keep me healthy and I'll do all I can to try to turn people around, to try to steer 'em in the right direction.' That's the whole trip in life, ya know.

Life Myself Money People Me Care

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