Donald Kennedy quotes

“A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.”
-- Donald Kennedy

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“So here's the situation confronting the drug firms: The drugs cost more to make, but they can't charge more for them. What do they do? Increasingly, the U.S. market is driving them toward drugs aimed at the diseases of richer, older Americans and away from antimicrobials, vaccines, and the like.”
-- Donald Kennedy

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“This is really a twin tragedy, both for the people who were misled over there, and for those of us who were misled over here.”
-- Donald Kennedy

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“Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom the scholar has, and part of that process is to state its results.”
-- Donald Kennedy

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“This is really a twin tragedy both for the people who were misled over there and for those of us who were misled over here.”
-- Donald Kennedy

Source : "Reports from the American Associationfor the Advancement of Science". "Science Show" with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. February 25, 2006.

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“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.”

Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

“I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.”

“What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?”

“There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.”

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

“I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.”

“Everything comes to the man who won't wait.”

Source : Ada Leverson (2012). “Tenterhooks”, p.58, tredition

“Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity - if activity is the right word for it - because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

“Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!”

“When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.”

Source : Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Big Stone Gap: A Novel”, p.25, Ballantine Books