John Gurdon Quotes
The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately why what happened to Dreyfus was not merely a cause celebre from the end of the 19th century, but an event that could be shown to teach us lessons of the greatest importance for our own time.
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Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
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Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.
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I don't think we should judge celebrities for doing charity work. Period. Whatever their reasons for doing it, they are shedding light on issues that would otherwise go unnoticed.
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The work I was involved in had no obvious therapeutic benefit. It was purely of scientific interest. I hope the country will continue to support basic research even though it may have no obvious practical value.
