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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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
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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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I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.
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We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, we have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
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The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.
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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.
