Carl Zimmer Quotes
About 1.2% of the human genome is made up of genes, things that encode for proteins, the stuff that we consider us. There is about 8.3% that's a virus. In other words we're probably about seven times more virus than we are human genes, which is kind of a weird way to thinking about yourself.Carl Zimmer
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
Hannes Alfven -
I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
Umberto Eco -
The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
Saint Patrick -
I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
Ted Turner -
Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.
Zach Braff
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I think, especially when you're on TV, once you become associated with one genre or the other, it's near impossible to break into the other one, even if you have experience with both.
Natalie Zea -
The Westoxified Pakistanis have been selling their souls and killing their own people for a few million dollars.
Imran Khan -
I only started to understand the concept of "environmental protection" 14 years ago. I was an ambassador for a charity event, and the staff told me that the consumption of disposable chopsticks in China, per year, could result in the devastation of unimaginable acres of forest.
Li Bingbing -
I firmly believe that in every situation, no matter how difficult, God extends grace greater than the hardship, and strength and peace of mind that can lead us to a place higher than where we were before.
Andy Griffith -
He hasn't pitched since he was a sophomore. I've told him he's going to be our closer. The slider was working well.
B. R. Hayden -
Violence against women and lack of intervention and man's inhumanity to man and this kind of atrocities are going on. These are big issues of our times, we must speak about them, we must learn how to better understand how these things happen so we can address them.
Angelina Jolie
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Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should.
Walt Disney -
Whenever I go to see her, she recharges my energy and enables me to cope with the many challenges and demands of my busy life.
Prince Andrew -
To abandon their isolation and agree, as the Albanians have done, to join the consulting governing bodies of the province which work with the international administration.
Javier Solana -
You must never conclude, even though everything goes wrong, that you cannot succeed. Even at the worst there is a way out, a hidden secret that can turn failure into success and despair into happiness. No situation is so dark that there is not a ray of light.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Married life is absolutely brilliant.
Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones -
I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?
Lord Byron
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
William James -
About 1.2% of the human genome is made up of genes, things that encode for proteins, the stuff that we consider us. There is about 8.3% that's a virus. In other words we're probably about seven times more virus than we are human genes, which is kind of a weird way to thinking about yourself.
Carl Zimmer