Susumu Tonegawa Quotes

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

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• When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around black people; they will really tell how they feel about white people regardless of the fact that I'm also white and have white relatives. It's very interesting and can be really hard.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • People
  • Black
  • Interesting

• Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Growth
  • Wealth
  • Research

• One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
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• Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.

  

  Iman
  • Great
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• He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of people have had pros and cons about it, but it was my wonder drug.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • People
  • Me
  • Wonder

• So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of digging, then piecing together details like a puzzle.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • Together
  • Fun
  • Research

• The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Different
  • Character
  • Look

• The fashion world is so interesting because it's always changing, but if you know yourself really well, despite of all the changes in the fashion trends, you know how to stay true to yourself.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • True
  • Interesting

• Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Time
  • Long
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• Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• No matter what happens, we couldn't let people say Asian-American actors can't act.

  

  Mako
  • People
  • American
  • Matter

• People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • People
  • Mind
  • Interesting

• You're stealing people's secrets. You convince them to give up their life and imagine the life you've created is real or more interesting. If it's a good play, they'll cry or think private thoughts about their lives or laugh.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • People
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  • Up

• There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

  

  Ellen Gallagher
  • Time
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• All interesting heroes have an Achilles' heel.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • Interesting

• I can kind of make money through my other passion, which is brewing, and that's a pretty stable business, and it would free up my timeslot to take roles that I really liked and that I thought were interesting.

  

  Dylan Sprouse
  • Up
  • Money
  • Business

• You know, 'Cheers,' you didn't have to leave the bar because what they were saying in the bar was important. 'All In The Family' is the same rule. On 'The Golden Girls' they didn't have to leave the table. And 'Friends' - the coffee shop. You can contain it if it's interesting.

  

  Jerrod Carmichael
  • Important
  • Family
  • Friends

• I've never acted, but I'm an entertainer. So I kind of used what I know from being onstage. I've done a thousand and two interviews, and I've been on camera a million times, so I'm not uncomfortable on camera, but it was interesting for me to be someone else.

  

  Lauren Alaina
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• It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

  

  Mark Twain
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• Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.

  

  Ken Follett
  • American
  • America
  • War

• Of course, I loved the Spice Girls. I loved Geri and Baby, but who liked Posh Spice? They said I looked like her, and I said: 'That's not cool, that's really mean.'

  

  Cara Delevingne
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  • Baby
  • Loved

• I'd say most of the rest of the world are bigger Beatles fans than me. They'd know more of the songs and more of the lyrics - I don't really know that stuff. I just respect them.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • World
  • Respect
  • Rest

• It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

  

  Susumu Tonegawa
  • Interesting
  • Matter
  • Research