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

• 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 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

• 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 knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • She
  • Know
  • Amazing

• Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Faith
  • Desire

• I started my career in Portugal, and the longest I've ever played a character was for about a year, which is how long our TV shows last.

  

  Daniela Ruah
  • Long
  • Character
  • Career

• I reckon that women looked their best at the turn of the century.

  

  Laura Ashley
  • Women
  • Century
  • Turns

• A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Dignity
  • Treasure

• I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• It's a tough business. To my parents or to their friends, I was not a success, but to me I was a huge success. I was having a blast. I was working on shows I loved, I was working with actors I loved, and I was making a living as an actor. And I loved every second of it.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Success

• 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