Paul Berg Quotes

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

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• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • God
  • Why
  • Problem

• I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Life
  • Different
  • Why

• If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • You
  • Imagination
  • Planned

• I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Home
  • Song
  • Community

• My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.

  

  Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • Father
  • Education
  • Poor

• But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Think
  • Beginning
  • Process

• I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Fun
  • Attention

• People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Guy
  • Me

• I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • See
  • Back
  • Superstar

• I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Great
  • Think
  • Hand

• You can exercise anytime, anywhere. It doesn't have to be the gym.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • You
  • Exercise
  • Gym

• Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Waiting

• Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Business
  • Small

• The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Important
  • Risk
  • Gun

• I'm unemployable in any other capacity.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Capacity
  • Other
  • Any

• Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Good
  • Flame
  • Committee

• If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Home
  • Change
  • Sweater

• There's all of this stuff where we have so much debate over nonsense; it could be cured if we had a better educational system, if we trained people to really try and look into things on their own. That's a tough thing to do, particularly with the educational system staggering.

  

  Paul R. Ehrlich
  • People
  • Trying
  • Tough

• I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Think
  • Better

• Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.

  

  Joel Coen

• Consciousness, rather than being an epiphenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It differentiates into space time, energy, information, and matter. Even though this view is an ancient view, an ancient world view, it is now finding some resonance amongst a few scientists.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Time
  • World
  • Energy

• As we all know, no crude oil refineries have been built in the United States since 1976. During that time, close to 100 ethanol refineries have been built.

  

  John Shimkus
  • Time

• With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

  

  Paul Berg
  • Time
  • Lost