John Sulston Quotes
We knew that all the protein-coding bits of genes do is to produce protein - they have to have instructions to turn them on and off. Those sequences lie well outside the protein-coding sequences, sometimes thousands, tens of thousands of bases away.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!
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I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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By the age of 18, I was very fat. My dad would say there's a Spall fat gene. But I was fat because I ate loads. I used to go and buy six or seven chocolate bars and eat my way through them.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
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On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.
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The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.
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I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.
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I haven't had an orthodox career.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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The easiest way I can describe what makes a pop song a pop song is that it's a song you want to hear over and over.
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I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen.
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I am a toxico-nutritional neuro-epidemiologist. It's the study of neurological disorders caused by a mixture of toxins and malnutrition using epidemiological methods... We are just three or four in the world, even fewer than sword swallowers.
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Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done.
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The older I get, the less conservative I become.
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As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the black American experience, it's probably even more important for black people to have that expanded view.
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Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads.
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When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.
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'Beloved.' That's an amazing film and I'm sorry more people didn't see it when it came out.
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We knew that all the protein-coding bits of genes do is to produce protein - they have to have instructions to turn them on and off. Those sequences lie well outside the protein-coding sequences, sometimes thousands, tens of thousands of bases away.
