Anne Wojcicki Quotes
Our approach to medicine is very 19th-century. We are still in the dark ages. We really need to get to the molecular level so that we are no longer groping about in the dark.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.
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I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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I worked as a lawyer; as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college; and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.
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This isn't meant to last. This is for right now.
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Nearly one year on from his election, Donald Trump disregards the constitution, offends allies, and attacks minorities, the powerless, and those who are holding him to account.
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We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.
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Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a novel that I have read over and over and over again. Tess is a pure child who has an inner glow none of the others in the book possess. They reject her because she is different, and they try in every possible manner to destroy her, because they are jealous. It is an extraordinary love story.
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I think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some level you have to assume responsibility for that. And I think over the years that gets difficult.
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Our approach to medicine is very 19th-century. We are still in the dark ages. We really need to get to the molecular level so that we are no longer groping about in the dark.
