Geoffrey West Quotes

Your cells are not working as hard as your dog's but harder than your horse's. The bigger the animal, the less energy needed to sustain a gram of tissue.

Geoffrey West

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DogAnimalEnergyHorseHardBigger

The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.

Angela Merkel

GreatPeopleEnthusiasmCountryHigh

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

Steve Martin

TruthSomeoneWhyWayNeverRight

When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my ground-floor room when a family of Italians crossed the grass to watch, as if I were laid on for their amusement and instruction.

Simon Hoggart

FamilyCityYouWallStudentGlass

What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

Tristan Wilds

LifeGoodBeautifulPeopleStory

I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp.

Robbie Robertson

ThinkPictureYouDeadYourStamp

Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.

Molly Parker

LifeSexEveryoneSexualityDefine

I love Chicago. Chicago is my home.

Jonathan Toews

LoveHomeChicagoI Love

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.

Chris Martin

WorkTimePeopleYouSaidTrue

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

Piers Anthony

YouThingsSenseJustAll Things

To me, we never get enough funding. In New York, we are clearly the number one terrorist target in the country.

Peter T. King

New YorkMeEnoughCountryTarget

There have been days where I've had two writers' rooms or three writers' rooms going, and you walk back and forth. And then you sort of throw yourself on the sofa, and you go, 'Just talk at me for, like, 20 minutes,' and my brain will catch up with this particular story. But I find that exciting.

Noah Hawley

WalkYourselfMeBrainStoryYou

Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.

Mariella Frostrup

FriendshipTrue FriendshipCreditLot

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