Iain McGilchrist Quotes

We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.

Iain McGilchrist

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We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn't have enough money to support their children, they'd put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children.

Robert Stack

HopeChildrenDepressionMoneyTrain

We only had a couple of ways for people to hate us on 'X-Files,' including still writing actual fan letters. Now people can instantly tell you, 'Oh my God, I love you,' or 'Oh my God, you are the worst person on the planet.' They actually had to hate you enough or love you enough to write a letter, put a stamp on it and send it.

Jeffrey Bell

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Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water's surface, less precise but more profoundly true.

Steve Erickson

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My brain is like a cross between a colander and a Lazy Susan - thin, slow, and it leaks.

Ron White

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I once ate nothing but grapefruit for an entire month. I didn't lose a pound.

Ruth Reichl

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It's not the most normal life in the world, but I screw up plenty of times to be a normal teenager.

Mila Kunis

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The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.

Louis Agassiz

NatureMindYouNeverStudyHighest

I've seen the enemy we face up close. Radical Islamist jihadists are a direct threat to our nation and to Colorado. I know what it takes to defeat this enemy.

Jon Keyser

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Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon.

Diana Ross

TimeLegacyThinkFeelSomeoneYou

I find working on brands some of the most interesting work you can do.

Debbie Millman

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My dad was in a union.

Anthony Scaramucci

UnionDad

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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