Randy Schekman Quotes
I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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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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Speaking and singing were equally common in my house. I started songwriting about the time that I started forming sentences.
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There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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In my life, looking at other women who have been pregnant while writing, I always feel like it's kind of their most musical or the closest to themselves. I think for me it's such a validating moment, you know. I always knew I wanted to have kids, and I've been making music all my life.
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Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
