Carl Zimmer Quotes
We have Borna virus genes. We're part Borna virus, which is weird, but apparently our cells and our genomes in a weird way might actually be grabbing these viruses, grabbing genetic material from the viruses that are infecting it and pulling them into their own genome.
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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I love making movies, but a movie becomes your entire life for, like, two to two and a half years. There's no way around it; if you're really going to be serious about a movie, it has to be your life.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.
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I took a 51 day trip through Asia; 12 countries and 26 cities. I traveled for 51 days. So, it was everywhere from Sri Lanka and that all the way to Japan, where we ended it.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
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I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.
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I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.
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There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.
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'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn't work on anything else but 'Polytechnique.'
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The only way to consistently grow in B2B is to be better than very good.
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Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find time. The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.
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Years before you scream at somebody or embarrass one of your teammates without even thinking about it. That's not the case anymore. They are there for you. You have to be there for them. They don't want to make errors.
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You know you're on the Senior Tour when your back goes out more than you do.
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We have Borna virus genes. We're part Borna virus, which is weird, but apparently our cells and our genomes in a weird way might actually be grabbing these viruses, grabbing genetic material from the viruses that are infecting it and pulling them into their own genome.
