I’m the sexy sexagenarian. Then I’m gonna be the sexy septuagenarian, ha ha!
Craig McLean, The Independent, 19 April 2025 source ↗
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Aziz Sancar
Biochemist; Nobel laureate in chemistry for mechanistic studies of DNA repair
In an interview, Sancar stated that in his youth, he was an idealist but he didn't participate in activities.
Just. Hanging. On.
Driven, authentic, resilient.
Fairly decent bloke.
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View profile →I was trying to put a sexy element into punk because that’s one thing that was missing from it.
Yeah, well, he died of too much of all the right things.
I have no real qualms with this year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class, except, damn, Billy Idol should have made it.
I nearly lost my leg and things like that, my life and my leg, you know? So (laughter) yeah, so gradually through the '90s, early 2000s, I was gradually trying to get off drugs, really. That's what I was doing, you know? I'm glad I'm like this today because I wouldn't be here talking to you. I would be probably either dead, in prison or gone crazy.
I was trying to put a sexy element into punk because that’s one thing that was missing from it.
Ever since I saw The Beatles in 1962-63 I started to dream about being in a group. Being on stage, in a group, writing your own songs, it just seemed like they were having a ton amount of fun and there was this huge music explosion.
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