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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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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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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Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
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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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The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do.
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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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I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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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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I'm sure we'll be Tweetin' up the Twitosphere as we travel around the world playing music.
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I couldn't do ventriloquism. I don't have any interest in splitting myself in two, the way a ventriloquist does — half-himself, half the dummy on his knee.
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There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen the Taj Mahal and love it and those who have not seen the Taj and love it.
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Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.
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There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.
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The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.
