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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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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I knew what I wanted to do for my entire life, from nursery to university. I've always been geared towards wanting to act. I've stuck with it, dedicated time to it.
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I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive.
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Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.
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Lord Asriel is just a man, with human power, no more than that. But his ambition is limitless. He dares to do what men and women don't even dare to think.
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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.
