John Gurdon Quotes
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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I try to photobomb as much as possible.
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I got my feet wet in a couple of shows. I did a cameo on my favorite show, 'The Vampire Diaries.' And I guest starred on a show called 'Kickin' It' on Disney.
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The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
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Many of the problems that families face can be solved with great technology, design, and distribution.
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And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.
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Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck, timing and accident.
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The very eagle, destined to soar so high and to see so far, begins his life in the fissures of the rocks, and in his early days only sees the arid and sometimes fetid borders of his eyry.
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There is no doubt that I was blessed with a considerable amount of luck.
