Harold E. Varmus Quotes
Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.
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We are not going to toy with our religion or any other. Nor are we going to barter. We are here to extend our hands to build peace and harmony.
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No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.
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I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
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Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
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I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'
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Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
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I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
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It seems that the Neanderthal DNA that modern Europeans and Asians and also Native Americans and basically all non-African people are carrying around is random. This means there are different bits and pieces in different populations, but it doesn't seem to amount to much that's significant.
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In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.
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A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.
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The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.
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Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.
