Randy Schekman Quotes
I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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I find web browsing, checking multiple email accounts, and Google mapping rather tiresome on an iPhone - the iPhone's native interface, for all its supposed perfection, has all kinds of wrong baked in - and the screen is just far too small.
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The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.
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All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it is not the oboe nor the beating drums, nor the score of the baritone singer singing his sweet romanza-nor that of the women's chorus; it is nearer and farther than they.
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God bless nannies.
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It is easy to make stuff up - and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
