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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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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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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If you are born poor, whether white or black, you are going to be in a bad neighborhood and go to a bad school. If you are making three million dollars a year, a couple hundred thousand in taxes ain't gonna kill you.
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Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.
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I come from the theater. Nothing is as difficult as working eight shows a week. Period. End of story.
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I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of.
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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.