Bob Waterston Quotes

Chimpanzees are especially suited to teach us about ourselves. Comparing the genomes will help us address the question of the specific things that make us human.

Bob Waterston

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• I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.

  

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• I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.

  

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• The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

  

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• Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

  

  Karen O
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• The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
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• Everybody is nicer to me when I'm in yellow.

  

  Cam
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• Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.

  

  Zach Braff
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• We all have our own little thing, I think.

  

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• With 'Eagle of the Ninth,' every shot was extremely planned and organized. The director was like, 'Do this!' And I say, 'How was it?' and he says, 'Good.' It was very odd. I would never know where he was headed, or even if he was shooting me at a close-up or from a distance.

  

  Tahar Rahim
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• I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these records, only using the instruments I had at hand - an acoustic guitar, and that's all. It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.

  

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• Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?

  

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• I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.

  

  Vera Wang
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• In fighting terror, you cannot let it interfere with the normal life of civilians in Israel.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
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• You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We've been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can't please everybody.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
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• I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.

  

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• I haven't gotten to do the leading man thing, so I would love to do that!

  

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• 'The Voice' ignited a fire in me to be an artist and to be a country singer, but not winning ignited an even bigger fire, because I was just like, 'First of all, I know that I want this'; now I wanted it even more, 'cause I didn't know if I had a record deal.

  

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• In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today.' It featured immigrants from different backgrounds, from black slaves like Phillis Wheatley to Yiddish-language speakers like Henry Roth.

  

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• I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible.

  

  Florence Henderson
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• The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Up
  • Teach
  • Students

• I love to teach, especially high school-aged students, because I like introducing them to the absolute basics of everything they're ever going to learn, the things I wish I had learned at that age. It's the stuff you can always go back to in terms of absolute fundamentals.

  

  Josh Cooke
  • Teach
  • Fundamentals
  • Go Back

• Chimpanzees are especially suited to teach us about ourselves. Comparing the genomes will help us address the question of the specific things that make us human.

  

  Bob Waterston
  • Human
  • Teach
  • Genome