Michael Rosbash Quotes
We benefited from an enlightened post-war period in the United States: Our National Institutes of Health have enthusiastically and generously supported basic research.
Quotes to Explore
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
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Would I have watched another season of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. Would I have watched another two seasons of 'Breaking Bad'? Of course. The fact that I would easily have watched much, much more than I got made the ending so much more poignant and stronger and better for me.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
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My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'
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Every year is beautiful, and I try to appreciate each moment in my career, but 30 was definitely one of my best.
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Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
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As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.
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'8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.
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It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them... 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.
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The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.
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Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime.
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Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?' We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.
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At one point, I didn't care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.
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A general charge of crony capitalism is easy to make. But dividing the 'bad' crony capitalists from the 'good' innovative entrepreneurs is much harder to do. And sorting them out without creating a new group of crony capitalists may be the hardest thing of all.
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In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past.
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.
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We benefited from an enlightened post-war period in the United States: Our National Institutes of Health have enthusiastically and generously supported basic research.
