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.
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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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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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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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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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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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We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
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'Partita' is a simple piece. Born of a love of surface and structure, of the human voice, of dancing and tired ligaments, of music, and of our basic desire to draw a line from one point to another.
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When you're coming into a company and, you know, have to do a transformation, what you really want to do is look at the company and say, 'Okay, here are the parts that the company does well. How do we get those genes to hyper-express? The genes that are getting in the way, how do you turn those off?'
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Learn to love being black.
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We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don't know.
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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.
