Carl Zimmer Quotes

The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast.

Carl Zimmer

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• So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.

  

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• 'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
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• I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

  

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• I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.

  

  Warren Spector
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• Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

  

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• It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.

  

  Carl Reiner
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• Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.

  

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• I'm not interested in celebrity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.

  

  Haley Bennett
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• Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.

  

  Nate Berkus
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• I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

  

  Tea Leoni
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• For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• I've always been interested in those Orwellian dystopian novels, like 'Fahrenheit 451,' 'Brave New World,' and obviously Orwell's '1984.'

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
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• The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss

• Every woman, whether or not they're comfortable with the term 'feminist,' probably wants to be equal to men, and that is fundamentally what feminism is about.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
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• For those not so taken by the star power, this new 'Ocean's Eleven' is the equivalent of a domineering team you can't stand that enters the Super Bowl. Even if you don't like the players, the odds are so good that it's tough to bet against them.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
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• When I saw 'The Player', I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience.

  

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• I think as an investigative reporter I had tough standards, but I don't think of myself as a tough person.

  

  Jill Abramson

• Once you have set the goal, give your staff the space to get there. If you micromanage, you will be able to do very little.

  

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• Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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• Living entity is food for another living entity, it does not mean that I shall eat my children also. There is discretion.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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• It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Great
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• The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast.

  

  Carl Zimmer
  • Reason
  • Fighting
  • Needs