Harold E. Varmus Quotes
I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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It took a few years before I realized there was life after football.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.
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V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific.
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The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?
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I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.
