James D. Watson Quotes
Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In fact, we have been able to create entirely new types of DNA molecules by splicing together the genetic information from different organisms - recombinant DNA.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'
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I have not the slightest doubt that the economic measures and the Socialist measures which one will find in countries of Eastern Europe, will become increasingly powerful against the uncoordinated, planless society in which the West is living at present.
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The theater requires an essential gullibility that you can't get through life without having. If all you can feel is skepticism-well , you meet people like this. Run away from them. They're not good people.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.
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You know, the culture is different. Here in L.A. the sun is shining all the time and everybody’s super nice and it’s just happy, and in Finland, it’s always dark and snowing and raining and people are not nice. People have their little families and we’re very close to our families and never talk to anybody else.
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Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In fact, we have been able to create entirely new types of DNA molecules by splicing together the genetic information from different organisms - recombinant DNA.
