Carl Zimmer Quotes
It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's a virus that might be HIV for example.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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I like to give people more than their money's worth.
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If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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A job is just a job at the end of the day, and work sometimes comes from the most unlikely places.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
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My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'
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But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong's uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures... China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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I always liked movies like 'American Graffiti' and 'Gregory's Girl.' 'Gregory's Girl' is particularly perfect because it really captures that summer holiday bubble of teenage utopia. Even though it's got a happy ending, there's a feeling that these characters may never see each other again.
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We can't legislate human nature.
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Time. There is much time left and lots of life seasons. There is much to see, to do, and to be.
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Everything I do I always feel very confident. Whether it's tennis, badminton, football, whatever. I just go out there and think I can do it and most of the time I can. What I'm good at I don't mind saying because it's not a secret, is it? For me confidence is so important. It's good to know I can go out on the field and feel I can take on the world.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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I don't know what has happened to movies, but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi; something with very important subject matters.
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It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's a virus that might be HIV for example.
