Eric Lander Quotes
We need to create a free trade zone among different labs in Boston. Private benefit goes hand in hand with enlightened public interest.
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Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just concentrate on what they're going to say, and they're not listening. You have to listen in order to see where the other person is going to.
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I bought these pink sticker things... and I would write things on them, and I wrote, 'I will write an international smash,' and shortly after, it was when we did 'Monster,' and it was an international smash.
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It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
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Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.
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It's a simple fact: no individual can be good at everything. Everyone needs people around them who have complimentary sets of skills.
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
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This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.
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Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously.
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I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.
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I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
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I do not fear grassy tracks. Whether there is grass or not on the wicket, I am not worried.
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Dreams are like stars. You may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny…
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I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.
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I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
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I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended.
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We need to create a free trade zone among different labs in Boston. Private benefit goes hand in hand with enlightened public interest.
