Kary Mullis Quotes
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I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Seems like half my anxiety dreams are about airports.
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People don't know. People are ignorant. They feel that if you stutter, then you're slow or whatnot.
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I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'
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It's a bit weird, because I don't really know what people expect or think being political is; I just don't get it. What am I supposed to do as a pop star-stroke-revolutionary? Get up and put my balaclava on, go to the grocery store and then invent some Google viruses, and then go to rob a bank to fund my revolution on YouTube?
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Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
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PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
