Thomas R. Cech Quotes
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to say I want to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic dresser or preppy dresser or a modern dresser, you wear a lot of black - whatever it is - your home should reflect that as well.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
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I'm a girl: that means I fight like a girl. And there ain't nothing meaner.
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I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
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The concept of evolution postulates that living organisms have common roots, and in turn, the existence of common features is powerful support for the concept of evolution.
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I like to carry a concealer palette that has a green, a yellow, and a tan color. I like to carry the green one because when I have a pimple, it's good to use that to contrast the red. Then you put the yellow over it, and it helps it disappear.
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My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them and they came out good so we inserted them into the new calendar.
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It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching as a kid. Guys like that, they were hilarious and didn't have to be super vile or X-rated.
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Ch. 11 : LSD Experience and Reality
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
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You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
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At some point you have to sit back and say, you know, it doesn’t matter what this guy does, they want to impeach him.
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I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my acting career. Martial arts reminded me of dancing. It has helped me learn fight sequences quicker.
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I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored in cultural anthropology which of course meant more masks and dancing … I studied what interested me and so I had to become a writer because my education had left me unsuited for a decent well-paying job.
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If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to say I want to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.
