John Gurdon Quotes
As a brand new graduate student starting in October 1956, my supervisor Michail Fischberg, a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford, suggested that I should try to make somatic cell nuclear transplantation work in the South African frog Xenopus laevis.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.
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Everyone in my family is a risk taker in his or her own way.
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The destruction of Wonderland, is the destruction of me?!
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I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.
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Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.
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The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.
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As a brand new graduate student starting in October 1956, my supervisor Michail Fischberg, a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford, suggested that I should try to make somatic cell nuclear transplantation work in the South African frog Xenopus laevis.
