Kary Mullis Quotes
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The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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Most people are really dedicated to doing good things.
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If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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The one great exception to the apathy on reunification is, naturally enough, Berlin. Encircled by the hostile Soviet Zone for ten years, at times blockaded and constantly at the Russians' mercy, Berliners are committed to this one goal with a unique urgency.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.
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The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
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American music culture is black culture.
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Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
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The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
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Til I was 10 years, I didn't know I had only two siblings. I always thought I had 10 and that they were all my family.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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People throw insults at you, and sometimes they hit a nerve - and it's about not showing that, because they will pick on that. Don't feed the trolls!
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The best teachers are those who keep students motivated, challenged and flourishing.
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I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
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The way to solve problems in the world is to become scientists and technologists and build things that haven't been built before and discover things that people really don't know about.
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I had a great time working with Denis [Villeneuve] and the whole group. It was a very different kind of a part [in Story of Your Life] than I've played in a while. But I had great fun; and yes, it was really nice not to have to answer to anybody about that.
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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I'm really optimistic in the mornings.
