Elizabeth Blackburn Quotes

For me, arguably the story of telomeres and telomerase began thousands of years ago, in the cornfields of the Maya highlands of Central America.

Elizabeth Blackburn

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• As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Dance

• Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Good
  • Know
  • Best

• The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Change
  • Attitude
  • Identity

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Find

• The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Music
  • Hope
  • Best

• When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• I'll tell you, there is nothing better in life than being a late bloomer. I believe that success can happen at any time and at any age.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Colors

• All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Good
  • Art
  • Performance

• All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Great
  • Together
  • Inspire

• In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.

  

  Mal Peet
  • You
  • Town
  • Ghosts

• When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Song
  • Sometimes
  • Look

• War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • War
  • Courage
  • Israel

• Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Music
  • Stop

• Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • Great
  • Think
  • Company

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • World
  • Future
  • Know

• I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro
  • People
  • Deception

• I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Right

• African-Americans have always viewed the protection of black lives as a civil rights issue, whether the threat comes from police officers or street criminals. Far from ignoring the issue of crime by blacks against other blacks, African-American officials and their constituents have been consumed by it.

  

  James Forman, Jr.
  • American
  • Black
  • Police

• America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.

  

  Ahmet Ertegun
  • America
  • English

• For me, arguably the story of telomeres and telomerase began thousands of years ago, in the cornfields of the Maya highlands of Central America.

  

  Elizabeth Blackburn
  • America