Mark Walport Quotes
There is usually a long interval between important scientific discoveries and impact on human health.

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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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I love nothing better than immersing myself in different street cultures; exploring all those neighbourhoods in Tokyo was quite amazing, or visiting Morocco to see an Inditex factory.
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I feel super lucky to be living in New York. I love the city, I love the energy. I always loved it. I had pictures of New York in my bedroom when I was young.
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Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
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At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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I introduced the Food Security Improvement Act in Congress to remedy the fact that most SNAP beneficiaries find themselves skipping meals or running out of benefits every month.
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I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
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I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.
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For a decade, Emma-Lee Moss has been steadily making weird, moody, melancholic music under the moniker 'Emmy the Great' that has been referred to as nue-folk, anti-folk, synthpop, and, most of all, literary.
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Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.
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There is usually a long interval between important scientific discoveries and impact on human health.