John Gurdon Quotes
I wondered whether the nuclear transfer techniques could be used to introduce purified macro-molecules into an egg, and hence into embryonic cells.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.
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Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
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You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.
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Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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I love seeing tattoos on 60-year-olds who have had them for 40 years.
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Remember, life itself is a mission. While we are on the go, we need to stop between steps to re-focus on the Word and the Will of God. While we are on the go, I mean, while we are on the mission, we need to sometimes stop at intervals to assess our progress and prepare ourselves for the challenges ahead.
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Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can't do any of them well - and I like to do everything perfectly.
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Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.
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God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.
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People were very fond of the project, but nobody could have - or would have - predicted how much of a phenomenon it would become.
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I wish that there was a program in college that taught you what to do about getting head shots, how to get an agent, how to get a manager, how to - none of that was taught. It was all your craft, and I'm very appreciative that they taught the craft in theater, but film and television are completely different than theater.
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I wondered whether the nuclear transfer techniques could be used to introduce purified macro-molecules into an egg, and hence into embryonic cells.
