Irwin Rose Quotes

Looking back on my 50-year eclectic journey in research, I am grateful that it has gone as well as it has, although still not clever enough to open the black box of enzyme structure.

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• The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Women
  • Job
  • Pretty

• Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Want
  • Party
  • Care

• My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Idea
  • Stand
  • Three

• Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Job
  • Health

• I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Often
  • Wizard

• The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Live
  • Culture
  • Question

• It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Day

• I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Personality
  • Angry
  • Roles

• We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Freedom
  • Nothing
  • Expression

• I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Team
  • Chance
  • Awesome

• Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Never
  • Become

• I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.

  

  Kate Greenaway
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Different
  • Animal
  • Sick

• And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Time
  • Successful
  • Comfortable

• Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Congress

• It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • Work
  • Me

• For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• Had I to do it again, I would have been a math major, probably a double major, and did take a lot of math classes, but I would have taken a lot more.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Taken
  • Math
  • Been

• Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Power
  • Night
  • Goal

• The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

  

  Ayelet Waldman
  • Up
  • Real
  • Father

• Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?

  

  Boris Becker
  • World

• For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Man
  • Feel
  • Child

• Looking back on my 50-year eclectic journey in research, I am grateful that it has gone as well as it has, although still not clever enough to open the black box of enzyme structure.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • Black
  • Journey
  • Research