Bill Maris Quotes
We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision. I just hope to live long enough not to die.
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
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I've always felt a bit hard done by in England – you know, I've won the Bisto three times in Ireland, but it has felt like nobody has even heard of me in my home country.
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It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.
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I'm not graceful.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
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There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.
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In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.
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I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.
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Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine.
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I think of myself as an actor.
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Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.
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The stampede toward 'rational expectations' - widely thought to be a 'revolution,' though it was only a generalization of the neoclassical idea of equilibrium-derailed the expectations-driven model building that had just left the station. In the end, this way of modeling has not illuminated how the world economy works.
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We need to fund relationship language in our schools so that future parents will know how to communicate about whether they want children; to communicate with the children they have, and teach their children how to communicate with the world. Technical progress without social skills is a Tower of Babel.
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Our top schools are obsessed with race, class, and gender but apparently not rigorous in cross-examining the fables and pop fads of their students.
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Statti col dolce in bocca; e non ti dogliaCh'amareggiare al fin non te la voglia.
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The reason I'm scared of flying is because I'm not in charge. Being so far out of control terrifies me.
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Hope lies to mortalsAnd most believe her,But man's deceiverWas never mine.
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If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.
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Every choice leads you somewhere, but it might not be where you truly want to be if the decision is based on someone else. It could lead to regrets and what-ifs, but that doesn't mean you wouldn't still have valuable experiences.
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I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center who don't have food and water.
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We actually have the tools in the life sciences to achieve anything that you have the audacity to envision. I just hope to live long enough not to die.
