Frederick Sanger Quotes

In this atmosphere I soon became interested in nucleic acids.

Frederick Sanger

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• My dad is a gentle and brilliant Iranian violinist.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
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• Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.

  

  J Allard
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• The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

  

  Florence King
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• I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.

  

  Raekwon
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• Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
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• Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

  

  Abel Ferrara
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• Your man Daddy Yankee, some black and white people who know what's going on in the 'hood and the clubs are supporting him and loving him. But he's speaking Spanish, and he's speaking directly to the Latino people, and the people who know the language really dig it.

  

  Fat Joe
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• Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.

  

  Daniel Boone
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• I'm never gonna change the skin, right? I'm very proud of what it implies and what it has meant to me... but then again, in Congress, I hope to make my mark as a colleague and as a leader.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Hope
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• Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Work
  • Real
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• I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Up
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• The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of ignorance and selfishness.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
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• All the parts I get offered are character and comedy parts, and I probably wouldn't get them if I had a different face. So I'm glad I have a comedy face.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
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  • Character
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• That's the purpose of creative stuff: when you really love what you do, you have to know at some point, or points, you're not going to be good at it. That's just the process of learning. I can edit it and try to be as perfect as I can, but I'm still going to have my vulnerable spots and my weaknesses.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
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• The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
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• I have invested in companies. I have worked in companies. We have built companies; we have created jobs.

  

  Kenneth Langone

• Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

  

  Chanakya
  • People
  • Friends
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• What we are expecting, after 2012, is a one hundred more times, more harmonious, Utopian world, where things like, time travel, levitation, instant telepathy, instant healing, telekinesis are as common and as everyday, as breathing. And I look forward to that time ...I see a very, very positive future coming.

  

  David Wilcock
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• I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
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• We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.

  

  Paul Robert Morley Art of Noise
  • People
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• As long as we stick together, we can smash the sadness.

  

  Mikey Way My Chemical Romance
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• People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
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  • Art
  • Lies

• In this atmosphere I soon became interested in nucleic acids.

  

  Frederick Sanger