Thomas R. Cech Quotes
The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.
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Whether I am collaborating with different people, I like changing projects conceptually so I can grow.
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I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal.
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Many artists have not been able to realise their fondest projects. My role is to help them.
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I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.
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I don't think about commercial concerns when I first come up with something. When I sit down at the piano, I try to come up with something that moves me.
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If you're frightened, you're out of luck.
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You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab. "Don't use the same beaker you used for poisons!" Claire yelled after him. He waved a pale hand. "I mean it!
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For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.
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It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.
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Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.
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It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.
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There is life outside of human beings on planet Earth.
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I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.
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We've got to stop worrying about the offense, too. Our biggest concern should be our defense.
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I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.
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the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.
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If I say, "I am a monk." or "I am a Buddhist," these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic.
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I always believed in love, compassion and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential.
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There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
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Things in the margins, including humans who wander there, are often on the brink of becoming someone else, or something else, whose memory may not include the significance of old markers.
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For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.
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But baseball was different... You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be ready, because if you f****d up, everyone would know whose fault it was. What other sport not only kept a stat as cruel as the error, but posted it on the scoreboard for everyone to see? ... You could only try so hard not to try too hard before you were right back around to trying too hard. And trying hard, as everyone told him, was wrong, all wrong.
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Hey, lady, those are some sexy-ass extensions. I guess you wont mind if I extend to you a personal invitation to party with me one-on-one in a scary motel room.
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The overall view of the human genome project has been one of great excitement and positive press, but there are people who have concerns that are quite reasonable, and they are frightened of things they don't understand.
