H. Robert Horvitz Quotes

The number of cells in our bodies is defined by an equilibrium of opposing forces: mitosis adds cells, while programmed cell death removes them. Just as too much cell division can lead to a pathological increase in cell number, so can too little cell death.

H. Robert Horvitz

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• One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.

  

  Carl Bernstein
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• To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

  

  Danica Patrick
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• At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.

  

  Sam Graves
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• If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!

  

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• I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

  

  Larry David
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• Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

  

  Rachael Harris
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• All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.

  

  Bart Stupak
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• To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  

  Quentin Crisp
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• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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• My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
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  • Great

• I am that weirdo that chooses the difficult route down the side of the street.

  

  Taylor Lautner
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• The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Think
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  • Beginning

• Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

  

  Barbara Boxer
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• LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

  

  Harrison Ford
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• To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.

  

  Dan Pink
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• What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

  

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• Most of America don't even listen to music probably. They just go raccoon hunting or something.

  

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• When he came back from downtown, he had forgotten to bring his license, his identification, the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later.

  

  Eydie Gorme
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• The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.

  

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• I am a spiritual person. I'm a Catholic. I treat my patients, the dead patients, as live patients. I believe there is life after death. And I talk to my patients. I talk to them, not loudly but quietly in my heart when I look at them. Before I do an autopsy, I must have a visual contact with the face.

  

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• Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.

  

  John Cleese
  • Why
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• The number of cells in our bodies is defined by an equilibrium of opposing forces: mitosis adds cells, while programmed cell death removes them. Just as too much cell division can lead to a pathological increase in cell number, so can too little cell death.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Death
  • Lead
  • Too Much