Kary Mullis Quotes
My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Unlike the Marxists, I have no mind block against the U.S.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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From the age of 14 to about 20, I bombarded record companies and DJs with my demos. I was desperate to get it out there. Most of the time, I got nothing back.
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But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
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If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.
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To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.
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Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.
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You take wins where you can get them because they're not easy to come by. You win at the major-league level, and you've done something.
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My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.
