John Sulston Quotes

In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.

John Sulston

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• I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Kind
  • Thought
  • Competition

• Being evil is easy.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Evil
  • Easy
  • Being

• Any competent actor could have done what I did.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Done
  • Actor
  • Did

• I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Up
  • Story
  • Movies

• If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Will
  • Prosperity
  • Far

• I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Me
  • Person
  • Planet

• I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.

  

  Sabrina Lloyd
  • Up
  • Music
  • Love

• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Matter
  • Accept
  • Someone

• We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Motivational

• My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Great
  • Generation
  • Sixties

• I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Different
  • Garden
  • Neighbors

• I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Speak

• I don't want to be someone else.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Someone
  • Else

• Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Why
  • Pretty
  • Body

• I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Fog

• My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Job
  • Day
  • First

• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Small

• It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Up
  • She
  • Almost

• I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably.

  

  Shania Twain

• So poisonousAre the ravishments of truth, so fatal to The truth itself, the first idea becomes The hermit in a poet’s metaphors,Who comes and goes and comes and goes all day.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Truth

• Colonization was the idea that once slavery ended African-Americans should be encouraged - or required, in some people's view - required to leave the country. It's part of an attitude toward the abolition of slavery which says America should not be a slave society, but it can never be a multiracial society. You can never have free black and white people living together.

  

  Eric Foner
  • Society
  • Attitude
  • Slavery

• You know, you don't work 30 something years in this business without knowing how to push yourself. So, I just kept pushing myself and pushing myself. The other thing that happens is when your hormones get out of whack your emotions come up.

  

  Marie Osmond
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• The Department of Justice should resolutely bar monopolizing mergers in all markets, including telecommunications, but they are not in a position, as is the FCC, to promote new competition by selling the airwaves in auctions.

  

  Reed Hundt
  • Justice
  • Competition
  • Internet

• In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition.

  

  John Sulston
  • Business
  • Science
  • Competition