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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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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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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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
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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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Every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns.
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It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very hard to have a simple idea.
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When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.
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The truth shall set you free. When you hear the truth, it sets you free. So mathematics is truth. It adds up. There's no error. Only time there's an error is when man miscalculates his own problems or his own equations.
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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
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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.
