John Sulston Quotes
Whilst worthy in themselves, applications shouldn't be the only way to drive basic research.
Quotes to Explore
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.
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I was the hallway clown in high school.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
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Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
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I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.
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I like people who take responsibility for their lives.
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I'm exceptionally email un-savvy, so to reply to my emails is like a torture. It's like literally, half of all my emails, I get my secretary to type out for me. And the personal ones, I avoid and just pick up the phone and call them.
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'Cake Boss' does massive, massive things, which are great.
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One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
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If you have a task to perform and are vitally interested in it, excited and challenged by it, and then you will exert maximum energy. But in the excitement, the pain of fatigue dissipates, and the exuberance of what you hope to achieve overcomes the weariness.
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I think I can be closed in. I can close this outer shell, cut myself off and be quite cold. I can cut other people off if I need to. I don't think I'm angry, though... Maybe my wife would disagree.
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There are some things I keep sacred. My middle name. Who I sleep with. And what kind of hand moisturizer I use.
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A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
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Whilst worthy in themselves, applications shouldn't be the only way to drive basic research.
