Elizabeth Blackburn Quotes
In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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I am a just man.
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The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.
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I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.
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Logic is a feeble reed, friend. 'Logic' proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.
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No student should feel like there isn't a way to seek justice, and no student should feel that the scales are tipped against him or her.
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Sometimes I need to reject the music proposed for my songs because the musicians misunderstand that the Fanny Crosby who once wrote for the people in the saloons has merely changed the lyrics. Oh my no. The church must never sing it's songs to the melodies of the world.
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In my early work, our molecular views of telomeres were first focused on the DNA.
