John Sulston Quotes
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
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To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.
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American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.
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I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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Real estate investing is unique in that it's almost as much a career or a way of life as it is a form of investing. Indeed, the fact that real estate is involves so much sweat equity makes it unique among other investments.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself. Keep your hands to yourself, Bill. Hillary, mind your own business.
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The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.
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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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If we understand the worm, we understand life.
