James D. Watson Quotes
I had become monomaniacal about DNA only in 1951 when I had just turned 23 and as a postdoctoral fellow was temporarily in Naples attending a small May meeting on biologically important macromolecules.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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If we're talking about masculinity and tenderness, I don't look at Clinton.
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In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.
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I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.
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I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
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Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses.
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I had become monomaniacal about DNA only in 1951 when I had just turned 23 and as a postdoctoral fellow was temporarily in Naples attending a small May meeting on biologically important macromolecules.
