Tom Allen Quotes
Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research.

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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
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You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.
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I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.
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The next time a former child star is in the news, look at the age at which he or she started performing. Then imagine making a life-changing decision at that age. Chances are good he or she wasn't the one who made it.
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I don't believe there should be any restrictions when it comes to firearms. None.
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If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.
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My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn't end up in her position.
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I don't make political work. I don't make work that criticises the state. I make as human work as I can.
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It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
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Once you're on the wheel, you don't come off.
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My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.
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I found that I had become so spinsterish that I was made neurotic not only by my life of domesticity but by the slightest derangement of my room. I would burst into a fit of weeping if the kettle was not facing due east.
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As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.
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The great thing is that I'm getting my revenge on everybody who treated me badly in high school. The bad thing is I had to go back to high school to do it.
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Humility is important.
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There were very few people who were both intercollegiate athletes and Star Men.
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The person that takes over needs to have the skills to manage that ... I believe Andrea [Leadsom] has the edge.
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The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
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I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.
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That mercy towards one set of creatures was cruelty towards another sickened his sense of harmony. As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the center of your time, and not at a point in its circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your life, and shook it, and warped it.
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If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.
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Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research.