Sydney Brenner Quotes
The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.
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One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics.
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I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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They were most correct, according to their god.
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It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.
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'Father, forgive them,' said Jesus, 'for they know not what they do' - People of good sense whoever you may be, I will add, do not listen to them, for they know not what they say.
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Non vi vieto per questo (ch'avrei torto)Che vi lasciate amar; che senza amanteSareste come inculta vite in orto,Che non ha palo ove s'appoggi o piante.
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A lot of our music came out of a lot of weird psychology and weird emotions. When you play the whole body of work, you get tossed all over the place. It's not easy listening. It's not even comfortable to listen to.
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I used to panic and get rattled when I was young, but as I've got older, I've started literally to live day to day. With age, you work out what matters.
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I think I have good judgment.
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The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.
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When I think of someone equating poems and machines, it makes me feel like that person would like poems to have a more obvious use value in society. They're not happy with poetry being this ephemeral, indefinable thing. They want it to be "real."
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The history of man is a compendium of such evil. We are an evolutionary product, descendants of predators. A few synthetic foods aside, every morsel eaten by man is taken from another living thing. We are intended for murder; we kill to exist!
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Judges don't age; time decorates them.
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Man's restlessness makes him strive.
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When I was married to an abuser, he'd tell me he wouldn't have to get so angry if only I'd be less demanding, more supportive, more understanding. I hid the truth from everyone, especially myself.
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The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology.
