H. Robert Horvitz Quotes
Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else.
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My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.
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The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.
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I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.
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Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.
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Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.
