Harold E. Varmus Quotes
Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
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For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.
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From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is now happening in Russia. People are beginning to understand that e-commerce is easy and safe.
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
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There's still a role for the Association for Israel Studies. But not as the endpoint of scholarship and not as a fortress to defend Israel.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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Though there are some notable exceptions, by and large the persistent ranting of the Warren Commission critics, some of whom were screaming the word 'conspiracy' before the fatal bullet had even come to rest, came to remind me, as H. L. Mencken said in a different context, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.
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The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!
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How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
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Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.
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As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.
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When you give up a bit of work don't (unless it is hopelessly bad) throw it away. Put it in a drawer. It may come in useful later. Much of my best work, or what I think my best, is the re-writing of things begun and abandoned years earlier.
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
