Kary Mullis Quotes
Years from now, people will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find those who excommunicated Galileo.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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When I was a kid, we all knew who Niki Lauda was. He was a hero, a living legend in Germany. Everybody knows him.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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A lot of the actors I knew threw in the towel when they became mothers. I couldn't do that financially, and I didn't want to - but I was knackered all the time.
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I love having other people sing my songs.
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It's a lovely thing to have people in any circumstance appreciate your work.
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The more life you have, the more it's in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist.
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Your commander would never lie to you. That's the vice president's job.
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Years from now, people will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find those who excommunicated Galileo.
