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"We were engaged three-and-a-half weeks after the first date."

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

"My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts."

"My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964."

"It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going."

"First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'."

"The first band I was in, I think was called The Strangers. I got the sack because I was too small!"

"The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband."

"If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone."
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"Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money."

"A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure."

"I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy."

"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought."

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought."

"This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation."

"Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse."

"So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function."
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