Carl Zimmer Quotes
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The problem with most children's hospitals is that they are passive. They are high quality. They are filled with the best doctors. But their function is to wait until kids get sick and get referred in.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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When you think about the Americans with Disabilities Act and what it takes for employers sometimes to accommodate a person with disabilities, when we talk about reasonable accommodations - it's doable, but the payoff isn't always obvious right away.
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Sometimes I feel like an impostor, and I have to remind myself, 'You are able to do this.' I look at the books on the shelf that have my name on them to remind myself I have done it before and, likely, I can do it again.
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I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes.
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Sometimes one has to take on responsibilities that weren't those one imagined.
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I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.
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Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
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Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
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I've got to be sensible sometimes.
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Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.
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Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.
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The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm sick. I am getting buildings named after me and awards and stuff.
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I was sick. I guess I was about to crack up thinking about all my good buddies. They were better men than me and they're not coming back. Much less back to the White House, like me.
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Sometimes, some things have to settle, and you have to think about the intention of it.
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I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.
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Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and you don't nail it, even if they're like, 'We don't need to see you again,' get a friend, get a video camera, and film you doing the stuff again.
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I row my boat on the river. I swim, ski, walk, lift weights, do yoga and Pilates. I don't want to be a weak, sick 90-year-old.
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Listen to the women. Women say exactly what they want. Who has concrete plans - not macroeconomics but kitchen table economics. Who will change the situation for their families, and help restore the middle class. Women are also sick to death of having their bodies and their lives treated as a political football.
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There are times when I haven't been proud of America or really proud. But there have been times that I've been incredibly proud of the country.
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You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.
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I find in animals the same thing I find so wonderful in children. That purity, that honesty, where they don't judge you, they just want to be your friend. I think that is so sweet.
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Viruses don't just make us sick. They can actually sometimes end up in our genomes.
