Thinking Quotes - Page 30

• I'm a fan of films in general; I mean, I don't think I've ever considered myself specifically a horror fan even though I do enjoy horror films, find them really entertaining.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Mean, Fans, Horror

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• Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.

  Robert Winston

  Medicine, Taught, Ethics

  "My bright idea: Robert Winston". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2010.

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• I like travelling on my own. It means I'm completely free to think about what's around me.

  Robert Winston

  Mean, My Own

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• My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.

  Robert Winston

  Father, Doe, Nine

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• Both in Britain and America, huge publicity has been given to stem cells, particularly embryonic stem cells, and the potential they offer. Of course, the study of stem cells is one of the most exciting areas in biology, but I think it is unlikely that embryonic stem cells are likely to be useful in healthcare for a long time.

  Robert Winston

  Cells, Britain And America, Long

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• I don't like seeing myself on television and I don't enjoy filming. What I actually enjoy is thinking about how I am going to express something or how we are going to make the visual metaphor.

  Robert Winston

  Television, Metaphor, Enjoy

  "What I see in the mirror: Robert Winston" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Over the past 20 years, I have presented many science programmes on BBC1. But none is, I think, more socially important, or of more human interest, than this ongoing series of 'Child of Our Time.'

  Robert Winston

  Children, Past, Years

  "Seeing is believing" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2004.

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• People think I appear on television to promote my image. That's not fair. I hate filming. I turned down 'Strictly Come Dancing.' But television is a wonderful opportunity to promote scientific ideas. 'Super Doctors' is a very thoughtful piece.

  Robert Winston

  Hate, Thoughtful, Opportunity

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• I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don't spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Marriage, Dog, Husband

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. September 15, 2005.

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• Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Smart, People, Southern

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• Do I need men? I don't think it's about needing men. It's about love.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Men, Needs

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• I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Parent, Stressed, Easy

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• People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

  James Wolcott

  Ambition, People, Special

  "James Wolcott’s Old New York". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 25, 2011.

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• In the first weeks of the Obama administration, 'bipartisanship' was the reigning buzzword, and when the Beltway thinks 'bipartisan,' it pictures President Reagan and Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill putting aside their differences and forging a legislative partnership, a ruddy pair of genial patriarchs bonding over the Blarney Stone.

  James Wolcott

  Differences, House, President

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• There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.

  Naomi Wolf

  Feminist, Tests, Monopoly

  Naomi Wolf answers your questions, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2001.

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• Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.

  Tom Wolfe

  People, Pages, Has Beens

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• My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I'd seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.

  Tom Wolfe

  Father, Editors, Southern

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• I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Mistake, Trying, Too Much

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• Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Sex, Women, Diversity

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 4 (1792)

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• I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.

  Stevie Wonder

  Reading, Boston, Two

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.

  John Wooden

  Games, Littles, Bits

  "John Wooden On College Basketball's Lost Beauty". "The long view" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 30, 2007.

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• I think there's this idea that lipstick is something quite old or something you'd only wear at night.

  Emma Watson

  Night, Ideas, Lipstick

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• I don't think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my brother and I were treated the same. He didn't do kid stuff. There were no kid's menus; you weren't allowed to order off the kid's menu at dinner - we had to try something from the adult menu.

  Emma Watson

  Daughter, Brother, Dad

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• It's very hard to describe your own style. And I'm young, so I'm still experimenting. But I think it's quite British and very much about individuality.

  Emma Watson

  Individuality, Style, British

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• I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

  James D. Watson

  Science, Years, People

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