Michael Rosbash Quotes
Scientific careers rely on inheritance, environment, and random events, like all biological phenomena.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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Well, love motivates me in everything I do.
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Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
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When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It's a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It's a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.
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The first time I went to New York, I went with my first boyfriend, Clark. His dad had just bought an apartment in New York, and my dad dropped us off, and we were there for a week on our own. I must have been 15 or 16. I remember I went to Harlem and bought a goose jacket. That was the hip, hot thing.
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What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet-only science would put them on the same tree.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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Che rilevare un che Fortuna ruoteTalora al fondo, e consolar l'afflitto,Mai non fu biasmo, ma gloria sovente.
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I'm Colombian. My family all have different complexions; some are people of color. I've been called every name by white people, been mocked for speaking in Spanish by white people.
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I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.
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The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.
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When I choose a role, I look for that spark that tells me it's going to work. Is the role fresh? What does it have for the actor in me? Those are the only things any actor should be concerned about, really.
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In concentration, the consciousness is held to a single image; the whole attention of the Knower is fixed on a single point, without wavering or swerving.
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If you're going to worry about what you said on TV, then don't get on TV.
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I don't believe that just because one person is born on one side of some imaginary line and another person is born on the other side means that a lot of people should be getting screwed through no fault of their own.
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Scientific careers rely on inheritance, environment, and random events, like all biological phenomena.
