Anne Wojcicki Quotes
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I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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Being on your own sometimes is appealing.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.
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Balance is if you try hard, you work hard then the rewards are in balance with what you put in and what is available.
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You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.
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Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.
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Comedy comes from conflict, from hatred.
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Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
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Sometimes I can see the whole painting from the outset in my mind's eye. But more often than not, that idea doesn't last the duration of the painting. Sometimes it comes out easy, just as I had envisaged. But that is reasonably rare.
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Everyone has something that they carry always, even if it's just as simple as, 'I hate myself.' Everyone's got a different thing.
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Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.
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I never quite toed the line.
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Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit.
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Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.
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When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.
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No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face.
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The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
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You don't do new things and try to change the system without generating debate.
