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“When we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up. Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates about the true nature of our nature, I began seriously to wonder: What if? We hold in our hands a tool that is more powerful - for good or ill - than any we have wielded before.”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

“As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on their box, buy the paperback.”

People Ifs Dream Reading Boxes Twists Dickens Oliver Twist

Author:William Golding

“I feel like people grow the most when they step outside of the box that they are used to. For me, it's constantly challenging myself to step outside of my comfort zone. As soon as you do that, then you grow, but then you get comfortable again.”

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Author:Sanaa Lathan

“It's not a matter of us standing outside it and ticking off the boxes: yes, the Bible is faithful here; yes, it's telling the truth there, and so on, but rather granted that it's God-given. It's the frame of reference that shows us how to live in, tells us how to think about everything.”

Thinking Matter Shows Given Standing Boxes Granted Faithful Telling The Truth Standing Out Frame Of Reference

Author:D. A. Carson

“Fan feedback going from a box of letters once every few months to literally tweeting while the show is airing. We are able to get a much quicker response to the choices we're making as storytellers.”

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Author:Greg Berlanti

“I would have said that during the early days of my life there was never a moment when I wasn't fit. We worked extremely hard on the beekeeping line, and both my brother and I used to compete, particularly when we were collecting honey. We would each have an 80-pound box of honey and we would race up the hill on the Tuakau track and race back down. We just raced all the time, and we used to keep very fit indeed.”

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Author:Edmund Hillary

“It used to be when a good record was about to drop you heard it out of every car and every kid with a boom box was playing it 3-4 weeks before it came out. Now it's not like that you just see ipods left and right and there's no anticipation factor. I have yet to see something drop with the anticipation that Illmatic had or that Ready 2 Die and Cuban Linx had. Those records had real anticipation factors.”

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Author:Mic Geronimo

“Thirty years ago, the Pandora's box of the Internet wasn't yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane.”

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Author:Christine Sneed

“You know, I started out really hot out of the box. Then I've definitely had and up-and-down career. And when things started cooling off again, it frustrated me.”

Knows Careers Hot Boxes Frustrated Up And Down Cooling

Author:Ray Liotta

“You can check that box off. You want to make your parents proud for the tuition they paid at NYU.”

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Author:Adam Jacobs

“I have boxes of pictures that nothing is ever going to happen to. Even Public Relations. I mean, I was going to events long before, and I still am.”

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Author:Garry Winogrand

“If someone wants to open this Pandora's box and deal with it, all right, go for it then.”

Ifs Want Deals Boxes Pandora Pandora's Box

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I feel like a good song is one that ticks all the boxes, but a great song is one that has this kind of special quality that just resonates with people.”

People Feels Kind Song Quality Special Boxes Tick

Author:Thomston

“We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.”

People Boxes

Author:Frank Gehry

“It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness.”

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Author:Frank Gehry

“Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box.”

Artist Boxes Architect

Author:Frank Gehry

“I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.”

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Author:Frank Gehry

“I feel like I'm being put inside a box, and I'm not necessarily getting a chance. Like I'm not getting the shot that I deserve. So that's what Rare is about 'cause I feel because I am the way that I am, and I don't necessarily fit the mold of a lot of different artists that's out, it's like I'm not getting the chance to show what I can do. So, that's basically all the frustration of that, and everything is pretty much Rare for me anyway.”

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Author:PJ Harvey

“I think the world tries to put people in a box, like this is the only appropriate way to be beautiful.”

People Thinking World Way Trying Beautiful Boxes Appropriate

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I get asked a lot why cats mess outside the litter box. The simplest thing is if you have more than one cat and you have two litter boxes, don't put them right next to each other.”

Ifs Two Next Cat Boxes Mess Simplest

Author:Temple Grandin

“Different cats don't like certain litter. They also don't like an unstable floor, no animal like's unstable floor. So if you put a thin piece of plastic down under a litter box and the cat walks on it and starts to slip, they don't like that. Any animal doesn't like an unstable floor.”

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Author:Temple Grandin

“Sometimes cats just avoid using a litter box but that [cat going poop outside the litter box but pees inside the litter box] is kind of strange. Most time people ask me why they go outside the litter box period.”

People Kind Sometimes Asks Strange Periods Cat Boxes Ask Me

Author:Temple Grandin

“I want to make sure to fix these obvious things - like keeping the box CLEAN! Another thing that might affect this [cats going outside the litter box] is if you put the litter box in a laundry room where people are walking by there all the time, the cat might feel kinda too exposed. When you gotta poop, you know, it takes a little longer. You want a little more privacy.”

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Author:Temple Grandin

“Just think about it yourself; you don't want to put the [cat's] litter box down the basement because that's too far, on the other hand you don't want to put where everybody is traipsing in and out the back the door.”

Thinking Want Hands Doors Cat Boxes Basements

Author:Temple Grandin

“On a piece of paper, write down the thing that is stressing you, the obstacle that is in your way. Then put it in a box and just leave it there. At the end of about a week, dispose of it - throw it in the trash or bury it - some sort of ritualistic act of releasing it.”

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Author:Gabrielle Bernstein

“I was so mad I wasn't sitting at the stadium watching it [Prince' 2007 Super Bowl performance] in person. So when Prince came back to the box where I would have been after he performed, he said to my makeup artist, "Where's Stevie?" She said, "She's sick, and she was told by our manager that she would have to walk across the football field when the game was over in the mud and try to find a limo, so she made the decision that she couldn't do that." He was not happy that I wasn't there, and now today I'm not happy about it because I should have gone and I should have walked in that mud for him.”

“[ This Is Us] is a character-driven dramedy, in which you will laugh. You may have to pull out your tissue box from time-to-time. But it will sort of reaffirm your desire to move forward in life. It's a very hopeful show.”

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Author:Sterling K. Brown

“Even though L.A Confidential box-office was a fraction of, say, Titanic or the Grinch movie, it finds its audience and will continue doing so for who knows how long, because of the basic thing we love about movies, which is storytelling and performances.”

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Author:Curtis Hanson

“I was never one to stand on a soap box and say, "This is how you need to live your life!" It was never about that.”

Needs Boxes Live Your Life Soap

Author:Milo Ventimiglia

“In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual tools did not do well with it, and analytical philosophy was above all about revolutionizing the philosophical tool box. It was more or less assumed that the Truth about ethics was some form of utilitarianism (perhaps because some consequentialist calculus looked to them like a respectable tool). Kantian ethics was then interpreted as a particularly odious version of the False - "deontology" - and treated with contempt.”

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Author:Allen W. Wood

“Permaculture is something with a million heads. It's a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can't put a way of thinking back in the box.”

Thinking Way Millions Boxes Way Of Thinking Permaculture

Author:Bill Mollison

“I don't care how cheap the box is that you put a diamond ring in, nothing about the box diminishes the value of the content.”

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Author:T. D. Jakes

“Put the greatest emphasis on what's in you; your knowledge, your wisdom, your inner strength, your character, your tenacity and people will look through the box and always walk away with the product.”

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Author:T. D. Jakes

“Everything on the radio is metaphorical in a bad way. But when I write a lyric, like "bang my box," that's pretty clear.”

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Author:Miley Cyrus

“I've never done a lead role in a film this big [like Doctor Strange], in a franchise this big. One of the reasons was, I wanted to know what the toy box was like. And it's just insane, the amount of facility that everyone gets, but the amount of artistry and craft that's brought to every aspect of filmmaking. I mean, you go to your first costume fitting and it's one of thirty. It's a myriad, but it's for a reason. There are so many incredible costumes in this.”

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Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“I was, it was very high. Especially with international (box office), we did something that I didn't think this movie ["2012"] would do. I was very happy.”

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Author:Roland Emmerich

“I think we try to box and put God in some limited definition, which is impossible.”

Thinking Trying Impossible Definitions Boxes

Author:Paula White

“What gets lost in the textbook is the overall narrative. It gets lost in all the boxes and all the photos and all the little stuff that's stuck in all the time.”

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Author:James W. Loewen

“When I'm home in New York, I box every day.”

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Author:Gigi Hadid

“I used to go on runs, it's kind of hard for me now unfortunately in Paris because it's a little bit hectic. My knees aren't that great, so recently I haven't been on the treadmill that much but that's why I like to box on a soft floor. It's good for me.”

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Author:Gigi Hadid

“You would not let your kids do whatever they want. So the challenge is to create accountability in a non-mechanistic way. You cannot come in with a clipboard and check off boxes and figure out why something has not been done on schedule.”

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Author:John Kao

“I like to always stop with a couple of pages that I haven't - that are just raw copy, where I haven't touched it, I haven't tried to revise it, I haven't tried to polish it. It's like having a little bit of a runway. The next day when you sit down, you have the comfort of saying, well, I have got a little bit here, used to be in the typewriter. Now it's in the magic box, the computer.”

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Author:Stephen King

“We all get pigeon-holed or put in a box, no matter what that might be.”

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Author:Justin Hartley

“J.C. [Chandor] was the kind of energy we were looking for, so we decided to get behind it with all of our effort. That was the beginning of our relationship with first-time feature directors, and that's when it became really important to us, watching them thrive and grow in a creative environment in which you can do that was really key. Also his work checked all the boxes, because it was socially relevant and intellectually driven, and creatively exciting.”

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Author:Zachary Quinto

“[Nancy Reagan] took that career, that obviously mattered to her, and just tucked it away in a box, because she thought, "That's over with now. I'm going to make wifehood my career."”

Careers Boxes Nancy

Author:Cynthia Nixon

“I keep boxes filled with recuerdos - little memories that are in the form of pictures and events that I've written down. It's funny that I chose to write them in Spanish rather than English or Portuguese.”

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Author:Sonia Braga

“I'm interested in smokers standing on ledges, and big box stores, the rise of the suburbs, and the hollowing out of small towns. Self-storage. Things that didn't exist 50 years ago. Our common culture. What we have agreed is OK to live with.”

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Author:Sam Abell

“My co-pastor is Randy Frazee. Randy is the brightest bulb in this box. He really has a feeling for what a church needs in terms of maturity, so I listen to him.”

Needs Feelings Term Church Boxes Maturity Pastor Bulbs Randy

Author:Max Lucado

“Obviously the more transparency we have as auditors, the more we can get, but the main goal is to understand important characteristics about a black box algorithm without necessarily having to understand every single granular detail of the algorithm.”

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Author:Cathy O'Neil

“You asked me about Queensland in particular and regional Queensland where our message of jobs and growth is resonating strongly because that's what is on people's mind, and when the election results are in on 2nd July, I'm confident that that message will be translated into the ballot box.”

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Author:George Brandis

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