Daniel Nathans Quotes

First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.

Daniel Nathans

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• I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • Never
  • Gun
  • Intelligence

• I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.

  

  Usher
  • Music
  • Way
  • Idea

• I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, there are certain things which I get to do which are untapped. The scenes give me the liberty to play and mould the character in accordance to the director's mindset.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Done
  • Character
  • Theatre

• My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Work
  • Music
  • Power

• There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.

  

  Feist
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Change

• When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Team
  • Support

• I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-white film called 'How to Dance Properly,' a short video of me dancing to a Madonna song. I sent it to 17 of my friends on a Thursday, and by Monday, one million people a day were logging on to view it.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Friends
  • Song

• Digital India is about empowering the citizen - it's mobile, it's cloud, it's storage - we are in all those areas.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Empowering
  • Citizen
  • Digital

• I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Life
  • Work
  • Kids

• No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Person
  • Miserable
  • Ever

• I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Time
  • Children
  • Kids

• I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Life
  • Real
  • Love

• The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Voice
  • Temple
  • Dancers

• Comme nous avons mal fait de nous laisser appeler Impressionistes.

  

  Edgar Degas

• Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. A young man in love is essentially enraptured by the forces within himself.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • Life

• A restaurant is a compendium of choices that the owner has made. If you look around a restaurant, everything represents a choice: the kind of salt shaker that's on the table, the art on the walls, the uniforms on the waiters.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Art
  • Choices

• As a little kid, not only is my dad Jo-Jo White, but M. L. Carr is involved in the family, Red Auerbach is my godfather, and my stepmother was an Olympic-caliber sprinter. Athletes were all around. I happened to be a natural athlete. If I wasn't, it might have been hell. But I never got any pressure from my mom and dad to be an athlete.

  

  Brian J. White
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Mom

• The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Quality
  • Argument
  • Effective

• I'm not just offensive, I'm very smart about the way that I do it, and that takes a lot of time. People say that young comics shouldn't be trying these things. That's ridiculous. You should try everything and see what sticks.

  

  Anthony Jeselnik
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• We have to have Internet streaming with truth out there. We have to have folks who are peacefully protesting, telling the truth. And the heart of America will begin to melt in the face of truth and charity.

  

  Alveda King
  • Heart
  • Truth
  • America

• We looked! Then we saw him Step in on the mat! We looked! And we saw him! The Cat in the Hat!

  

  Dr. Seuss
  • Cat

• I believe that there's good content or bad content. You see interviews when somebody interviews a director of a movie that didn't perform well in the box office, and he says, 'The audience didn't understand my movie.' If people didn't go to buy the ticket, then you did the wrong movie.

  

  Emilio Azcarraga Jean
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.

  

  Daniel Nathans