Eric Lander Quotes
Of the more than 5,500 mammals living today, dogs are arguably the most remarkable. The incredible physical and behavioral diversity of dogs -- from Chihuahuas to Great Danes -- is encoded in their genomes. It can uniquely help us understand embryonic development, neurobiology, human disease and the basis of evolution.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.
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I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'
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Hell is paved with good intentions.
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Even atheists rebel and express, like Hardy and Housman, their rage against God although (or because) He does not, on their view, exist...
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When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves.
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It captures a lot of the spirit of the '50s.
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Nevada is a little different than most states. We only meet every other year in the legislature. So it's very important to have good relationships on both sides of the aisle... I have to have those relationships.
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You're going to struggle. You're going to do well. You can't really let the past or the day before - whether you had a good day or bad day - dictate the day you have that certain day.
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To measure prices by a currency that is called by the same names as gold, but that is really inferior in value to gold, and then - because those prices are nominally higher than gold prices - to say that they are inflated, relatively to gold, is a perfect absurdity.
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I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
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Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.
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I'm actually an evil bastard in real life. Fark allows me to vent weirdness. Thank god for that, too.
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That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
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If you have a situation where you need help, it doesn't make any difference where it comes from.
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People will be able to survive, of course, without honeycreepers and monk seals. But if the wolf spider is in trouble, we are in trouble, too.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
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Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.
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I hope the message goes out loud and clear that more athletes should give back to the community and give back to the sport that made you what you are today.
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Of the more than 5,500 mammals living today, dogs are arguably the most remarkable. The incredible physical and behavioral diversity of dogs -- from Chihuahuas to Great Danes -- is encoded in their genomes. It can uniquely help us understand embryonic development, neurobiology, human disease and the basis of evolution.
