Bonnie Bassler Quotes
Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered those pathogens, it ravaged the population, and now they're childhood diseases, and eventually they won't even be that. That's our relationship with bacteria, going through time.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
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For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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True philanthropy requires a disruptive mindset, innovative thinking and a philosophy driven by entrepreneurial insights and creative opportunities.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
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Most of the major consumer-goods companies roll out their marketing programs in the I-4 corridor. It reflects what America looks like.
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Some media companies that rely on advertising revenue are tying journalist compensation to the traffic their story generates. It doesn't work because it de-prioritizes writing.
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Driving a race car is like dancing with a chain saw.
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Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state.
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To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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Think about all kinds of infectious diseases, like mumps or measles or chicken pox. When a virgin population encountered those pathogens, it ravaged the population, and now they're childhood diseases, and eventually they won't even be that. That's our relationship with bacteria, going through time.
