Edward Lawrie Tatum Quotes

As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme.

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• Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Day
  • Stupid
  • Smart

• As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Career
  • Dream
  • Girl

• A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Big
  • Club
  • Straight

• Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Help
  • Soul

• I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Play
  • Exciting
  • Broadway

• I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • High
  • Society

• You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Guy
  • You
  • Living

• There's so many different people that I'm fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that I meet in, like, everyday life, that I'm like, 'I don't know how you exist. Like, you're so fascinating.'

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Reason
  • Care
  • Things

• I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.

  

  La India
  • Know
  • Rock
  • Singing

• I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Live
  • Bread
  • Jewish

• I love Karlie Kloss. I want to bake cookies with her!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Want
  • Cookies
  • Bake

• When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Support
  • Christian
  • Roots

• Our life is full of empty space.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Space
  • Empty

• Writing is the process of finding something to distract you from writing, and of all the helpful distractions - adultery, alcohol and acedia, all of which aided our writing fathers - none can equal the Internet.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Writing
  • Internet
  • Alcohol

• Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights-the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.

  

  Walter Bagehot

• Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like.

  

  John Zorn
  • Good
  • Great

• I was a tomboy. In my clubbing days, my friend Lucy Davies-Hunt - half-Iranian, looked like Yasmin Le Bon - could wear catsuits, while I was the one in the sweatshirt, jeans, and Fila boots.

  

  Maxine Peake
  • Friend

• I am passionate about God, about Jesus, and what His influences do to me.

  

  Toby McKeehan
  • God
  • Jesus

• I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself.

  

  Joe Sacco
  • People

• So many women waited until later to get married and then even later after they got married to have children. And then they have problems, and it takes them five, six, seven years to have children.

  

  Joan Lunden
  • Women
  • Children

• As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme.

  

  Edward Lawrie Tatum