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.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Time
  • Help
  • Responsibility

• '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
  • Question
  • First
  • Explore

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

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Doing

• 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
  • World
  • Best
  • Care

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

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Feeling
  • Woman
  • Pity

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

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Fall
  • Doing
  • Bird

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

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Thoughts

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

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Funny
  • Training
  • Acting

• 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
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Child

• 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
  • Life
  • Music
  • Writing

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

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Bad
  • Food

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

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • World
  • Brave

• 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
  • Good
  • Power
  • Team

• 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.

  

  Arundhati Bhattacharya
  • Space

• People are really interested in economic security.

  

  Jim Gray
  • People

• There's a lot of producers that are much more technical or gear-skilled than I am. But I have a pure idea of what I like and where I want to go and I follow that.

  

  Alain Macklovitch

• Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Mind
  • Feeling
  • Joy

• My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Father

• When you say we're bringing a product to market, you make sure you execute.

  

  Thorsten Heins
  • Products

• When I read out loud in class, it was a joy for everyone else because I would mispronounce things so badly. I used to try to count how many people were in front of me and then work out which paragraph I would have to read out and start trying to learn it. And I would sit there thinking, 'Please let the bell go so that it doesn't get round to me.'

  

  James William Middleton
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• The Supreme Court, or any court, when they make a decision, if that's a published decision, it becomes virtually like a statute. Everybody is suppose to follow that law. Whether I decide to allow a law to become a law without my signature is simply in effect expressing a view that while I don't particularly care for this, the Legislature passed it, it was an overwhelming. vote, or maybe there were other reasons. But my decision not to sign doesn't have to be followed by everybody from that point on

  

  George Deukmejian
  • Reason
  • Decision
  • Care

• We put our best foot forward, but it's the other one that needs the attention.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Attention
  • Needs
  • Feet

• 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