Harold E. Varmus Quotes
Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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I make hits.
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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generated anecdotes to go into my diary. The diary took over and I had to stop.
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My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.
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Being on a film set is like being in tech forever. In theater, when you finally finish rehearsing, you go onstage and you do the lights and the sets and you make the machine of the production work. It takes usually about ten days in the theater, two or three weeks if it's a really big musical. I mean, it's hell on earth. You just sit around forever while they adjust the lights. And every playwright with half a brain runs for the hills when tech starts because it's so boring, and you don't want to talk to the director because the director is running this giant machine.
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Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
