John Sulston Quotes
I'm pleased that some economists and sociologists are beginning to talk about, for example, alternative measures of human well-being - alternative, that is, to GDP, on which the world runs.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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En el sueño eterno, la eternidad es lo mismo que un instante. Quizá yo vuelva dentro de un instante.
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I don't have a driving desire to be all encompassing and world powerful or anything.
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Don't choose the one who is beautiful to the world. But rather, choose the one who makes your world beautiful.
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The only way it would work for me is if it was a full-length feature film directed by Joss Whedon or Tim Minear or David Greenwalt.
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I learned to keep at a certain distance from things - and to make myself a little bit invisible while I observed and understood them.
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I'm pleased that some economists and sociologists are beginning to talk about, for example, alternative measures of human well-being - alternative, that is, to GDP, on which the world runs.
