Bonnie Bassler Quotes
When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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Restaurants are like kids. You hope you understand their innate gifts, and then you let them realize their aspirations.
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Hillary Clinton has been very guarded with the press.
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I love the fact that H&M has created a new phenomenon in fashion through the pioneering concept of collaborating with high-end designers to create one-off limited-edition capsule collections. I am thrilled that my creations for H&M will be accessible to - and hopefully enjoyed by - so many people around the world.
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Don't any of you realize there's only one life between that madman and the Presidency?
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When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.
