Michael Rosbash Quotes
This is the western world; if somebody can make a buck, they're going to try to do it.
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Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.
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Blizzard was of the fine old school of butlers. His appearance suggested that for fifteen years he had not let a day pass without its pint of port. He radiated port and pop-eyed dignity. He had splay feet and three chins, and when he walked his curving waistcoat preceded him like the advance guard of some royal procession.
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She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.
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The master made it his task to systematically destroy every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying: 'When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.'
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(In answer to the question: In the extreme case, if it was just you doing all the code, and the rest of the world quietly used it, would it make sense to give it away free? Unless you're particularly grateful for other free things you've got off the Net, would the answer be No?':)
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All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.
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I love doing stunts. It's so much fun.
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If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it 'romance and adventure.'
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There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
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I love playing women at the far ends of the social scale. I've done it all my life; that's where my ability lies.
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I lived in a studio apartment until my mid-30s. I don't have an extravagant lifestyle.
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The pulsar map is not dangerous at all. It will likely never even be seen by extraterrestrials.
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I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . . . That’s mundane and it’s old hat. Let’s break down some barriers.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
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This is the western world; if somebody can make a buck, they're going to try to do it.
