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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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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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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When we complain, we often project onto others the dissatisfaction of how we're dealing with our own lives.
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If something - if you have a good rapport then you're friends and you're offered projects together or you discover stories together. Jennifer and I discovered this story together, and it was evident to us we would only do it with each other.
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If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you're worried about what they will do to the Afghan people. If that was America's concern, America's operational presence there would be much different.
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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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In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.
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To tell a person who has ADD to try harder is about as helpful as telling someone who is nearsighted to squint harder.
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October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.
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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.
