Mark Walport Quotes
I look forward to working closely with the Research Councils, Innovate UK, and Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), as we work together to create UKRI. I also look forward to working closely with all of our research and innovation communities to provide a strong and coherent voice for U.K. science and innovation.

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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.
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I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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It's not a nice thing to have a song written about you.
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When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.
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Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.
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School is very important; it was very important for me. It gave me an enormous amount of confidence, especially at Yale where we were dealing with all the classics. In dealing with the classics, you are dealing with the very best.
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I look forward to working closely with the Research Councils, Innovate UK, and Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), as we work together to create UKRI. I also look forward to working closely with all of our research and innovation communities to provide a strong and coherent voice for U.K. science and innovation.