George M. Church Quotes

This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we want throughout the genome. The goal is to be able to change it as radically as our understanding permits.

George M. Church

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• 'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.

  

  Edmund White
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  • Fun
  • Politics

• I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • World
  • Women
  • America

• Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Men
  • Waiting

• My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• My first priority is trying to protect my family.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Family
  • First
  • Priority

• My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Think
  • Me
  • Word

• 'I haven’t organized my life as a narrative, you know. I’m not sure you’ll understand.''As listeners, we are not required to understand,' said Qiingi. 'Only to care.'

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Life

• When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.

  

  Ouida
  • Life
  • Time
  • Friends

• To my friends pictured within.

  

  Edward Elgar
  • Friends

• Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit of happiness as he understands happiness; but in itself it is a seminary of intolerance.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Tolerance

• The truth is that I have lived on an even keel. I don't go down, and I don't go up. I believe in living above the line. Above the line is happiness and love, you know. Below the line is all sadness and destruction and unhappiness. And I don't go down below the line for anything.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Truth

• With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose.

  

  David Suzuki
  • World
  • Live
  • Nature

• I think we should all have a private audience with Helen Mirren.

  

  Claire Foy

• I think, all my life, I've grown up and had high expectations, but that becomes so stressful.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • Life
  • Up
  • High

• We as preachers/teachers/pastors have to figure out things to do in order to garner the attention of individuals and also keep them at our churches by making sure that we reinvent ourselves on a consistent basis.

  

  Marvin Sapp
  • Attention

• Martin Luther King Jr. really understood the role of the churches when he said, 'The church is not meant to be the master of the state.' We don't sort of take power and grab the levers of government and impose our agenda down people's throats.

  

  Jim Wallis
  • People
  • Power
  • Church

• Here in L.A., there are a lot of dead spots, and you have to drive to find energy, but all of India is so energetic.

  

  Chris Kattan
  • Energy

• I'm not an entertainer - that's not what I do. I want to teach viewers; I want to show them. I want to share my culture.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Culture

• Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Time
  • Great
  • Interesting

• Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Bad
  • Idea
  • California

• Confident people, who understand comedy, improvise so much better than people who are scared. You can't be scared to improvise. You have to know your character, and then you have to let go.

  

  Marlon Wayans
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• The Wall Street Dow Jones up and down thing that's moving when the stock market's open? That thing freaks me out. It's up, it's down, it's just maddening to me. I guess I'm such a super-focused kind of person that I get distracted really easy. I'll watch that thing, and it's like I'm losing money, I'm getting money. It's just crazy.

  

  Eric Church
  • Up
  • Money
  • Crazy

• This is a whole new era where we're moving beyond little edits on single genes to being able to write whatever we want throughout the genome. The goal is to be able to change it as radically as our understanding permits.

  

  George M. Church
  • Moving
  • Understanding
  • Whole