Thomas R. Cech Quotes
We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.
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Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
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I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.
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But make no mistake. My counterpart is capable of a great deal of ruthlessness in pursuit of a just cause. He believes he has right on his side. And men who think they have right on their side are always the most dangerous sort.
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In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.
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The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.
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Hollywood has got technology, method, and discipline.
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It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions.
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You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.
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A lot of people have told me along the way that my style and the music I do... is unmarketable. But the only reason I'm successful is because I have stayed true to myself.
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I think achieving a higher fiscal stability is also a very important condition for restoring an environment which is conducive to growth.
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You know, an hour and fifty-four minutes is too much for audiences. They get nervous.
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I think my favorite part about being on the road is that it's like a boys' club.
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I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was 'Bunnicula,' which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it.
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I reach readers rather unintentionally, I think, and those readers likely connect with the slant, the off-kilter, the part of the road you can barely see from the well-traveled road. So, when I'm writing, I'm not thinking about audience at all. Instead, I'm trying to see behind those shrubs, down that hidden path. We're the weirdos of the world and there are so many weirdos.
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We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.
