Lewis Thomas Quotes

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

Lewis Thomas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

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My first dunk ever was in middle school. We were playing, me and my church friends, and I dunked it, and I swear I could not sleep that night.

Jeremy Lin

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The longer I'm alive, the more I realize how little I know. Pretending that you know everything about every topic, and being very vocal about it? That's an instant turnoff.

Jennifer Morrison

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I will do crazy skincare things in the kitchen... I love coconut oil, so if I come home at night feeling all dry and like a fossil, I'll put my hand in a jar of coconut oil and just mush it over my face.

Suki Waterhouse

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I can tell you, young 22-year-old Rob Liefeld was having quite a run.

Rob Liefeld

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I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

Molly Ivins

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When I look back at this career I've had, I don't know where it goes from here, but certainly any time I can make a movie that's different, that explores something that's not a retread of something else, I'm interested in it.

Don Coscarelli

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I don't have long-standing regrets; they pass as I see how things are meant to be.

Dita Von Teese

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To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person.

Dennis Rodman

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When actors have the opportunity to play a larger-than-life icon - my wife did it with Tina Turner, and Jamie Foxx did it with Ray Charles - you have to make a decision how you go in. What do you start with? Where do you begin?

Courtney B. Vance

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The BJP is not a party dependent on a single individual, nor is it tied to the apron strings of a family.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

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I had never seen a perfect game or no-hitter thrown.

Phil Humber

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