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- Nov 07, 2020
Early Quotes
On the things that take root early, for better or worse.
"Early" covers a range of beginnings here — gossip that starts young inside military culture and never really stops, and teenage years spent shopping almost exclusively secondhand. See Early Life quotes for more.
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- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an early morning person.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prada is such a huge company, and it was an honour to work with them and so early on in my career.
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though I resigned as Papandreou's adviser early in 2006 and turned into his government's staunchest critic during his mishandling of the post-2009 Greek implosion, my public interventions in the debate on Greece and Europe have carried no whiff of Marxism.
- Poet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
- Early Bird
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- Nov 07, 2020
The early bird catches the worm.
- Gossip
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I learned in the military is that gossip starts early and it stays forever.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned early on that extraordinary challenges lead to extraordinary victories.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
Luck is not an acceptable substitute for early detection.
- Emerged
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early Sixties, having begun to describe the physiology of cells in the adult cat visual cortex, David Hubel and I decided to investigate how the highly specific response properties of cortical cells emerged during postnatal development.
- Endow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Innate mechanisms endow the visual system with highly specific connections, but visual experience early in life is necessary for their maintenance and full development. Deprivation experiments demonstrate that neural connections can be modulated by environmental influences during a critical period of postnatal development.
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