Bonnie Bassler Quotes
We're scientists; we're curious about how nature works, but we're also do-gooders. It's fantastic to think that the same experiments we'd do to understand how information gets into cells could have a practical side to them, too.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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All of us grow.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
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There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.
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I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
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Visually, a lot of the electronic artists have really interesting video and interesting things like that.
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People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
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I want to work with my friends because Canadian genre publishing is a really small pool.
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When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.
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If I could create my own utopia, it would be this genderless world where we didn't have to talk about it.
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I guess the way to keep a grip on reality is just to take breaks in between albums like most normal bands do. Go home and be a person and hang out with your friends. Do separate things and get back to earth and write songs and go out there again.
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Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like.
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In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.
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We're scientists; we're curious about how nature works, but we're also do-gooders. It's fantastic to think that the same experiments we'd do to understand how information gets into cells could have a practical side to them, too.
