Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both.


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I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a b...
BARRY MARSHALL
Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was m...
BARRY MARSHALL
Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if ...
BARRY MARSHALL
The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people - good diet, strong aci...
BARRY MARSHALL
In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat e...
BARRY MARSHALL
Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place name...
NEIL MARSHALL
I never got beaten up, because I was a wisecracking jokester. I could make a bully laugh before he d...
GARRY MARSHALL
My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My par...
GARRY MARSHALL
A lot of people come work with me because I keep an open set, and people can visit. Julia Roberts us...
GARRY MARSHALL
I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But wi...
GARRY MARSHALL
You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover the...
GARRY MARSHALL
I don't sit well. I like to move around as I talk.
GARRY MARSHALL
When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and...
GARRY MARSHALL
My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a lau...
GARRY MARSHALL
I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and thi...
GARRY MARSHALL
We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
GARRY MARSHALL
Religion has a good place and it has its good people.
GARRY MARSHALL
My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazi...
GARRY MARSHALL
I must confess that the original 'Pretty Woman' was terrific and a hit, but I always felt th...
GARRY MARSHALL
There's no better satisfaction than writing. I feel that writing is the best and everything else...
GARRY MARSHALL
I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about th...
GARRY MARSHALL
There is more to life than show business.
GARRY MARSHALL
Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I sp...
GARRY MARSHALL
I always wanted to be known as the Norman Rockwell of television, and 'Happy Days' represent...
GARRY MARSHALL
It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can ...
GARRY MARSHALL
When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.
GARRY MARSHALL
In the education of the American people, I am Recess.
GARRY MARSHALL