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Geoffrey West Quotes

One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing.

Geoffrey West

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: physicist
Nationality: british
Birth: 1940

Topics

Culture Amazing Organization Kind

I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.

Jim Henson

Black And White Black Doing Remember

Spike Lee's been doing it for a long time now. We're all standing on his shoulders.

John David Washington

Time Doing Long Long Time Now Been

I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.

Andrew Weil

Medicine Place Serious Against

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life My Life I Have Learned Know

Our line of business structure has served us very well in the past, when customer segments and product requirements were very distinct.

John T. Chambers

Business Past Customer Product Line

I grew up in the 1960s and wanted to become part of the great space exploration effort, but when I graduated from college in 1974, the Apollo program was over, and the country had moved into this pessimistic mode. We had entered the 'age of limits.'

Robert Zubrin

Age Great Effort Space College Over

I was a married woman and I had a baby. I would have adored it, but I just couldn't do it because I'm a lady.

Ruth Warrick

Woman Baby Lady Because Just Would

I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.

Ross Levinsohn

Opportunity Revolution Media Digital

The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time.

Molly Ivins

Women Time Angry Black Late Riots

The body responds to a calorie deficit by slowing down the metabolism and burning muscle tissue. That leads to weakness, sluggishness, slow times. In girls, it can also result in cessation of menstrual periods, which in turn leads to loss of bone density and frequent stress fractures.

Don Kardong

Stress Slow Weakness Loss Result

If politicians of both parties would spend more time legislating and less time attacking each other, we would all be better off.

Bob Beckel

Time Better More Politicians Off

The Olympic gold was like going to a theater and seeing a movie that had the ending you expected. But you left the theater thinking, 'You know, that was a good movie.'

Ashton Eaton

Good Gold Ending Thinking You Know