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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Obviously, I'm at the beginning of my career, contrary to what anyone else thinks. I'm 19 years old. In any other country, everywhere else, you're a prospect. And that's what I am right now in Europe. I'm a prospect. I'm not a seasoned veteran.
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One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.
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If I'm flying to China, I can sit and think about a problem. Other scientists have to go to the lab. I'm always thinking about maths, even when I'm doing other things. A lot of the time you're going up blind alleys and it's very frustrating, but then you have a sudden rush of ideas. You can live off that for quite some time.
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He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
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My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
