Renato Dulbecco Quotes
While we spend our life asking questions about the nature of cancer and ways to prevent or cure it, society merrily produces oncogenic substances and permeates the environment with them.
Quotes to Explore
-
After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
-
'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
-
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
-
The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
-
When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
-
When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.
-
I can't ever see myself playing the romantic lead because that's not me; I'm not that girl.
-
I'm actually a pretty good tennis player!
-
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
-
In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
-
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.
-
When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
-
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
-
I'm a workaholic. I love every movie I've been in, even the bad ones, every TV series, every play, because I love to work. It's what keeps me going.
-
When you speak the truth, people realize that.
-
I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.
-
I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's sort of this implicit idea that the finale is somehow supposed to be the mind-blowing best episode of a show. The question is: Why is that? Why do people make that assumption?
-
An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.
-
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
-
An old trick well done is far better than a new trick with no effect.
-
I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wife's best friend. She died of breast cancer. When she passed away back in 2004 was the last time I cried.
-
Every president becomes a caricature. The press, partisans, late-night shows, and other arbiters of our culture these days boil down complicated and multi-faceted personalities into one-dimensional punchlines.
-
I don't like publicity, being in the limelight.
-
While we spend our life asking questions about the nature of cancer and ways to prevent or cure it, society merrily produces oncogenic substances and permeates the environment with them.
