Elizabeth Blackburn Quotes
If we think of our chromosomes - they carry our genetic material - as being like shoelaces, I work on the plastic tips at the end that protect them.Elizabeth Blackburn
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
Katee Sackhoff -
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
Paloma Picasso -
You think about taking audiences on a journey.
Sam Mendes -
Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
Fiona Shaw -
Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde -
I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
Carice van Houten -
I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
Mahesh Bhupathi -
As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
Nancy Gibbs -
The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.
Earl Browder -
All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
Randi Weingarten
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
Hannibal Buress -
My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
Tamsin Egerton -
I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
Foxy Brown -
For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
Calvin Johnson -
I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
Yakov Smirnoff -
I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
Ildar Abdrazakov
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Predictability is the cousin of death: I don't necessarily want people to see me coming. You know?
CeeLo Green -
I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
Patch Adams -
Of course, we wrote the songs accordingly and performed and recorded them that way. At that time, we really thought it was right, but you know, seen in retrospect, it made the album sound forced, and not really great.
Mark McGrath Sugar Ray -
I've been told that I overshare. Sometimes I get criticized for it, but how else would I be if not all of me?
Bozoma Saint John -
You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.
John Oliver -
If we think of our chromosomes - they carry our genetic material - as being like shoelaces, I work on the plastic tips at the end that protect them.
Elizabeth Blackburn