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George Wald Quotes

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 18, 1906 - April 12, 1997

Topics

Competition Mistake Win World

I was given no special information by the White House, or by anybody else, for that matter.

Information House White Matter Given

I always wanted to do theatre but never really took it up, as I was more inclined towards dance and films.

Amruta Khanvilkar

Dance Theatre More Never Always Up

I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.

Work Simple Song Down Messed Up Try

I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never fashion.

Family Father Mother Art Politics

As a director, I think it is important to keep a space between yourself and your film. It's like you are in the movie, but at the same time you are watching it from the outside.

Time Yourself Space Think You Same

You know, you don't please everybody.

Ronnie Montrose

You Know Everybody Please

People see my body and ask me what I do to work out. I play a lot of basketball, so I'm constantly dribbling and running up the court. I take a basketball with me everywhere I go!

Work People Me Basketball Body Play

Where do we invest our trust now? In politicians? Most people would say not. In banks, in religion, in a sense of nationhood? In each other? Even that has been complicated. It feels like there's a total collapse of trust, but without trust, it's impossible to have any sense of who one is.

Trust Religion People Impossible Say

I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.

Family Love Dinner Table Cook

The biggest problem is always getting hits. That's the one thing that has never changed. The way of delivering music has changed, the way of listening to it has changed, the way of distributing it has changed, but it's always the music.

Music Listening Problem Way Never

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

Door Strong Friends More Box Both

It is of great concern that the fabric of African life, its very source of hope and stability, is threatened by divorce, abortion, prostitution, human trafficking, and a contraception mentality.

Pope Benedict XVI

Life Hope Great Divorce Abortion

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