Kathleen Rubins Quotes

When I was at Stanford, I was actually in the cancer biology program, but I mostly focused on infectious disease.

Kathleen Rubins

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• We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Peace
  • Religion
  • Harmony

• People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Music
  • Writing

• No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Worry
  • Fame

• If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Care
  • Down
  • Planning

• I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Want
  • Way
  • Story

• You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • People
  • Great
  • Different

• One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Nature
  • Pain
  • Human Nature

• People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • People
  • Help
  • Me

• While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Different
  • House
  • Always

• Singing is and always will be a part of my life.

  

  Tammin Sursok
  • Life
  • Singing
  • My Life

• In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Games

• If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • True
  • Journey
  • Stay True

• There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Dad
  • End

• My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Family
  • Alone
  • Relatives

• For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Fun
  • Yourself
  • Sexy

• You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Life
  • Work
  • Broadway

• [The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Real
  • Logic
  • Assumption

• William Hartnell was one of the finest character actors of our time, and as a fan, I want to make sure that I do him justice.

  

  David Bradley
  • Time
  • Character
  • Justice

• I think cancer is a hard battle to fight alone or with another person at your side, but I will say having someone to pick you up when you fall, stand by your side through every appointment and delivery of bad news, is priceless.

  

  Jenna Morasca
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Alone

• I use a lot of sunblock, which is something I learned from my mother at a young age - to stay out of the sun and be careful of skin cancer. We live in a time where global warming is at its maximum level. The ozone is destroyed, and our skin is exposed to sunbeams on a daily basis.

  

  Eiza Gonzalez
  • Time
  • Live
  • Mother

• When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Feelings
  • Cancer
  • Plight

• When I was at Stanford, I was actually in the cancer biology program, but I mostly focused on infectious disease.

  

  Kathleen Rubins
  • Cancer