Frances Beinecke Quotes

Mercury is most commonly recognized as a developmental toxin, threatening to young children and fetuses as they develop their nervous system. Prenatal exposure to even low levels of mercury can cause life-long problems with language skills, fine motor function, and the ability to pay attention.

Frances Beinecke

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ChildrenProblemsLanguageAttention

'Coriolanus' has been around for 400 years, and it's going to be around for another 400 years, and nothing I can do is going to mess it up. So, going into it, I felt sort of very free to look at it as a filmmaker does.

John Logan

FreeLookI CanNothingMessUp

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Stephen King

TruthLieInsideFiction

The military likes to figure out how to do something, put it in a manual or an operating procedure, and perfect doing it, and have everyone do it the same way. I don't like that.

Stanley A. McChrystal

DoingPerfectWayMilitarySameOut

When I'm doing something, I do work hard at it.

Simon Van Booy

WorkWork HardDoingHardSomething

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

Mira Sorvino

CollegeIntentionalChineseVery

I've just always sort of been mesmerized by our minds and how people think and how people react differently.

Chris Wood

PeopleThinkReactMindsAlwaysOur

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.

Bruce Feiler

LifeFaithReligionGrowing Up

I'm a sucker for a packet of biscuits. I can eat a whole pack in 10 minutes.

April Bloomfield

I CanEatWholeBiscuitsMinutes

I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.

Allen Tate

ChangeMusicBelieveKeyMeasure

Return to your friends and tell them that we came here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, and determined to avenge our own wrongs and set our country free. Let your masters come and attack us: we are ready to meet them beard to beard.

William Wallace

FreeBeardBattleFriendsPeaceful

I always found the road exciting. I liked stinking hotels and freezing dressing rooms.

Suzi Quatro

RoadAlwaysDressingFreezingHotels

The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.

Niklaus Wirth

WorkBeautifulSatisfactionBecome

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