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For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends'

automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
A. S. Byatt

I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only job I could find.
Ferran Adria

Yeah, I was born in Montreal and I go back to Vancouver and Toronto a lot, so I have a sense of being Canadian, and I was raised by two Canadians, and my wife is Canadian, so yeah, I feel it.
Jason Reitman

I'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff.
Steve Cropper

You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.
Dar Williams

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Surgeons always underestimate the pain and disability involved in what they do to people.
Robert Winston

I believe that people, regardless of their station in life, should be able to sit down at a table to a meal - inside away from the heat and cold, the rain and the snow.
Michael Nutter

The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact.
Arthur Smith

I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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