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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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?
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Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.
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I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.
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According to Buddhism, individuals are masters of their own destiny. And all living beings are believed to possess the nature of the Primordial Buddha Samantabhadra, the potential or seed of enlightenment, within them. So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?
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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.
