Edwin Conklin Quotes
Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides - that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist, the embryologist, the cytologist - but the mechanism of heredity can be studied best by the investigation of the germ cells and their development.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.
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When I think of Emily Dickinson, there's not one particular poem of hers that jumps out, but I do have a very vivid image of an ill woman with giant eyes who wants to write about the sun exploding.
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I see city finances within the context of an economic strategy... We are going to solve our financial problems by growing the economy, and I have rejected some corners that have called for a slash-and-burn approach, and I've rejected others who have called for raising taxes and leaving government as is.
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The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.
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While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'
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We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.
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The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.
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My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.
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There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.
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Walking is good for the soul.
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I believe that you and I - and everyone we'll ever meet - has the inborn capacity to be heroic, to take daring, courageous, and noble steps to make life better for others, even when in the short term it seems to be at our own expense. The capacity to do the right thing, to dare to take a stand and make a difference, is within you now.
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Every immortal except Jack Nicklaus has hit a wall and stopped making putts he had to make in order to win. Jack did it for 20 years.
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The man who disobeys his parents will have disobedient sons.
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The World Cup is every four years, so it's going to be a perennial problem.
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I've learned in my older age how to let it go when things don't work out, because something incredible that I don't know about yet is probably right around the corner.
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Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides - that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist, the embryologist, the cytologist - but the mechanism of heredity can be studied best by the investigation of the germ cells and their development.
