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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
-
I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
-
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
-
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.
-
It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
-
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.
-
I'm just someone who marvels at God.
-
Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
-
Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
-
'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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
-
But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
-
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.
-
I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
-
I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
-
We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
-
If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
-
American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
-
I'll always have a score-first mentality, because that is my bread and butter on the floor.
-
I think world creation and monster creation and all of that stuff is exciting as a secondary element of storytelling. When it becomes more important than storytelling, I get very nervous, and you sort of lose me a little bit.
-
My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon shoes. You strap them to your feet and they have springs on them, and you can just jump around!
-
23andMe set out to try and change healthcare - this is not an easy business. This is not a coffee shop in Austin.
