John Gurdon Quotes

Within six months of starting my Ph.D. work in 1956, I had already obtained feeding tadpoles derived from transplanted nuclei of embryonic cells.

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• The world is always in movement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
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• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!

  

  Zara Larsson
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• At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.

  

  Victoria Justice
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• What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

  

  J. August Richards
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• The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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• I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

  

  Patrick deWitt
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• There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.

  

  La India
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  • Human
  • I Can

• And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

  

  Pamela Anderson
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• Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.

  

  O. J. Simpson
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  • Great
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• I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

  

  Warren Zevon
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• If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

  

  Adam Hamilton
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• With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.

  

  Natasha Richardson
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• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  

  Karel Capek
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• A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.

  Gail Devers
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• I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring.

  

  Philip Pullman
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• When you buy anything with lots of leverage, it does not require a whole lot to go wrong to lose it all.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
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• If the challenge wasn't there, there's no reason to say 'yes' to the role.

  

  Corey Hawkins
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• When you work at 'The Wall Street Journal,' the coins of the realm are truth and trust - the latter flowing exclusively from the former.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Work
  • Truth
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• I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really. But also, for me, from the time I was, like, 10 years old, all I ever wanted to do was be in a band and make music.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
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• Within six months of starting my Ph.D. work in 1956, I had already obtained feeding tadpoles derived from transplanted nuclei of embryonic cells.

  

  John Gurdon
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