Thomas R. Cech Quotes
I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
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I don't even know what my favourite food is anymore, as they are all such bad foods!
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My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
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There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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For a long time, I lived in West Hollywood and watched young gay men strolling through life having no idea what came before. They didn't know about the riots at Stonewall, the vice squad, the raids.
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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
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The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.
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One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
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I prefer to find craftspeople I can be colleagues with and who take an area of responsibility and run with it.
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Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.
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Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
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I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.
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I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he's just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example.
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One of the things I've been thinking about lately is how the change in values makes the survival of the old values, where they do survive, all the more striking. There are pockets of the old bullfighting world that exist more or less intact, both in Spain and elsewhere.
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Language, after all, is organic. You can't force words into existence. You can't force new meanings into words. And some words can't or won't or shouldn't be laundered or neutered. Language develops naturally.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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I think there is value in having practising scientists as leaders of research institutions.
