Kary Mullis Quotes
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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Until part of your paycheck is regularly paid in Bitcoin, I'm not sure how it would really go mainstream. I can imagine places in the world where there are not functioning banking systems or payroll systems, where it could go mainstream first because you're not trying to replace the way people are already doing something.
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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People trash talk me.
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If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.
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I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.
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I see myself as extremely lucky.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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The written word is the only anchor we have in life. How extraordinary would it be if we had even three or four paragraphs written honestly about their lives by our ancestors?
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Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic.
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I can play the trumpet. Before I became an actor, I wanted to be the next Louis Armstrong. I started young and got to grade seven. When I turned 13, everyone started whipping out guitars, looking cool and joining rock bands, so I stopped playing.
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We're all entitled to opinions about how art institutions should behave, and entitled to voicing those opinions through whatever means available to us. We're also allowed to change or modify our opinions.
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I'm always one time zone behind myself.
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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
