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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A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.
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There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with a tough hide.
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For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.
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I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear that this trip I absent-mindedly packed a Luger.
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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.
