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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Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
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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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To own the dominant, or only, newspaper in a mid-sized American city was, for many decades, a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age, however, no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.
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Until we reach the end of time, we don’t know whether something’s been good or bad; we can only judge the intentions of those who acted.
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I have little use for Grieg or my Concerto, this is not only extraordinary piano playing, it is an entirely new way of playing the piano.
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I am a believer in Adam Smith, who says that if you look at something that really contributes value to society, and you can deliver it at a reasonable price, then society will recognise that at some point because rational behaviour will come into play.
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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.
