James D. Watson Quotes
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There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
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Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.
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When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a photo in real life.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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My life began with Ronnie.
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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
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Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
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Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
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Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
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I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.
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When a story is told really well and is real, even if it's not about their own lives, people can apply it to themselves.
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One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.
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If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.
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If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.
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I've no idea what Eddie Irvine's orders are, but he's following them superlatively well.
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We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
