James D. Watson Quotes
Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.
Quotes to Explore
-
Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
-
When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
-
I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
-
Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
-
We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
-
I get up late, have an espresso, and immediately start work. I try to get roughly caught up on email before I leave the house, then if I need to write anything or review a complex deal, I do that, and then I head to the office and work on my top few priorities for the day. I try to schedule my meetings in the afternoon.
-
People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
-
The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.
-
There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
-
I went up to the top of the career ladder and I came down again, I am past all that.
-
Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
-
I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
-
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
-
I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
-
I find the business world hard.
-
O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
-
I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
-
When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't control what you dream about. And it sneaks into the unconscious.
-
I'm a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.
-
I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.
-
We have a law that allows us to establish charter schools here in this state. We ought to get going on it.
-
I'm not really a first-move kind of gal.
-
Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.
-
Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.
