Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quotes
At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
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In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
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I would like to thank the 49 actors who appear on screen in 'Whiplash' for realizing Damien Chazelle's vision so beautifully.
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Coaching the Bruins is like going bear hunting with a butter knife.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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You're gifted to do something.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
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Israel desperately needs peace if it is to come anywhere close to being the 'light unto nations' of Jewish dreams.
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'Until Friday Night' is the first book in my new young adult series, 'The Field Party.'
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I learned at an early age that what we were doing in the choir was just as important as the preacher. It was a ministry in itself. We could stir the pot, you know?
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We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.
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Near the end of high school, I was always super shy, backward.
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You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.
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I really feel like 'True Blood' is a big, giant slice of cake for the audience every week; it's offering people 60 minutes of sometimes thought-provoking entertainment. If you're gonna give an Emmy out, you should probably give it to the audience of 'True Blood.'
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Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.
