Gary Marcus Quotes
“One key lesson learned from mapping the genome is that access to a rough initial map proved crucial to developing more detailed maps of small individual human differences.”
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St. Joe's students and alumni are as supportive as ever, and their spirit is unquenchable.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.
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I fell in love with acting, just going to a lot of plays. My parents went to a lot of plays, and I went to a lot of schools that would get plays for kids.
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I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.
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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
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People work hard.
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Everybody is nicer to me when I'm in yellow.
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Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
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My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
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There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.
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You are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts.
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What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.
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How are fears born? They are born because of differences in tradition and history; they are born because of differences in emotional, political and national circumstances. Because of such differences, people fear they cannot live together.
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To me, if you're lucky enough to make stuff that people will pay money for, do a good job. Really do a good job. Especially if you're talking about real stuff, like terror atrocities and human rights abuses and pencil-sharpening techniques.
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“One key lesson learned from mapping the genome is that access to a rough initial map proved crucial to developing more detailed maps of small individual human differences.”
