James D. Watson Quotes

I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

James D. Watson

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• I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Me

• I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Life
  • Live
  • Friends

• One bipartisan policy tradition is to deny Americans the use of our own resources.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Policy
  • Tradition
  • Resources

• In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Life
  • Women
  • Man

• Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Religion

• The game is meant to be fun.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Meant To Be

• So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Women
  • You
  • Start

• I don't get people baring their lives on television. Maybe it makes other people feel better about themselves. Is that what it is? You watch these people making total fools of themselves. It's like there's absolutely no privacy.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Television
  • Privacy

• Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Voice

• Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Rule
  • Dichotomy

• It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • True
  • Government
  • Arts

• A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Work
  • She
  • Artist

• I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Know
  • Me
  • Myself

• I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Up
  • Family
  • Friends

• I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Confident

• I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Know
  • Impossible
  • I Can

• The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Story
  • Got
  • Filmmaker

• I want to - more than anything - to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That's what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

  

  Eve Curie
  • Women
  • Way
  • Democracy

• We lived, ate, and breathed pop songs.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Songs
  • Lived
  • Pop

• I think there are people, and I do not mean this to be disparaging, there are people like Jay Mohr and Jeremy Piven where they just give you that vibe, 'This guy's going to play someone a little venal.'

  

  Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty
  • People
  • Guy

• Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Dance

• We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for the integrity, the courage to be whole, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences...Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • World
  • Exploring

• I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

  

  James D. Watson