Siddhartha Mukherjee Quotes
Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.
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I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.
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The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.
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We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from - and with - each other.
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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
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I'm not mean.
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Rob Engle and I are concerned with extracting useful implications from economic data, and so the properties of the data are of particular importance.
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I make movies that nobody will see. I've made movies that even I have never seen.
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I'm forever a Pittsburgh Pirates fan. Apparently I've picked the worst baseball team in the world.
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Our first and last love is self-love.
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When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.
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I believe the term "blog" means more than an online journal. I believe a blog is a conversation. People go to blogs to read AND write, not just consume.
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Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.
