Randy Schekman Quotes
When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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One has to wonder what Donald Trump will say next as he ramps up his anti-Muslim bigotry. Where is there left for him to go? Are we talking internment camps? Are we talking the final solution to the Muslim question? I feel like I'm back in the 1930s.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
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When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.
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I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'
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Unfortunately, terror is now linked to immigration, and anyone with dark skin or a beard or a Muslim name is suspect. Russia, France, then the United Kingdom, and now even Germany have no qualms about going far beyond their borders to strike at the enemies of their countries.
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Most police officers are good cops and good people.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
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There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
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I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.
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If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work.
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When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
