Gary Marcus Quotes
“Because genes work in combination, the incremental effect of adding a new gene to a genome may be not linear, but exponential.”
Quotes to Explore
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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Always, if you win mentally, you can win physically as well.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.
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A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
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We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.
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Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.
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I think we realized what was at stake.
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Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.
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I don't fear death, it must be like a long sleep.
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We aren't playing defense and we aren't rebounding the basketball. This has gotten off to a bad start, but we have to find a way to turn it around.
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Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.
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As a team the increased fuel costs, naturally, affect your budget. Figure this: the transporter that we run gets about 6 1/2 to 7 miles per gallon at best, 4 1/2 at worst. Obviously, the increased fuel cost makes a considerable difference, especially with all of these trips we're making to the West Coast now.
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It is my view that Richard Clarke's testimony before the joint inquiry will shed light on the issues without compromising national security.
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We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.
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Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
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The best way to see a country is from the footplate of a locomotive.
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Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.
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The way I was taught, being black was a plus, always. Being a human being, being in America, and being black, all three were the greatest things that could happen to you. The combination was unbeatable.
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Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.
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“Because genes work in combination, the incremental effect of adding a new gene to a genome may be not linear, but exponential.”
