Anne Wojcicki Quotes
23andMe set out to try and change healthcare - this is not an easy business. This is not a coffee shop in Austin.
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We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay.
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The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period.
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I was afraid people wouldn't take me seriously, or would stop respecting me, if I talked about how bad I was feeling. The only people I talked openly about it with was my business partner, Dave Jilk, and my girlfriend - now wife - Amy Batchelor. They were amazingly supportive, but even then, I was deeply ashamed about my weaknesses.
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Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
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When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.
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23andMe set out to try and change healthcare - this is not an easy business. This is not a coffee shop in Austin.
