Eva Vertes Quotes

My grandmother was a chemist. She worked at the Banting Institute in Toronto, and at 44 she died of stomach cancer. I never met my grandmother, but I carry on her name - her exact name, Eva Vertes - and I like to think I carry on her scientific passion, too.

Eva Vertes

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The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.

Michael Ignatieff

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Most exciting for me was to make the Pro Bowl in 14 of 15 years.

Merlin Olsen

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Now we know that if we make a ten min video for YouTube, people will watch it.

Troy Carter

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There used to be a huge hole in my life that I wrote many albums about. I didn't realise it was a wife-and-daughter-shaped hole. They've plugged that gap. Everything I do, I do for them now. When daddy goes to work, it's daddy going to work, not Rob going to work. I feel like there's a purpose to everything.

Robbie Williams

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At one time, I had it notarised that I was from another planet. By a lawyer.

Roky Erickson

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Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo.

Mickey Spillane

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Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

Michael Tippett

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I wake up every day, make awesome music with awesome people, and tour the world, which is incredible.

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I want to do a collaboration or some kind of side thing or some soundtrack work. Because I've been doing this for years and years. I'd like to just step out and try something different.

Jon Crosby

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I saw how hard my parents worked, and I didn't want to be a freeloader.

Pete Gallego

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Higher educating has so many challenges, and private higher education has a special challenge of ever rising tuition costs.

Ken Starr

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'Friday Night Lights' was never a break-out hit; I'll never regret doing that show.

Kevin Reilly

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