Elizabeth Blackburn Quotes
The goal is to learn more about telomere length and other markers of ageing, how best to measure these markers, how they are related to health and lifestyle, and how people respond to learning their own telomere length results.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I have quite a house. People come over and I go, 'I know, I'm sorry.'
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and that this gives Wal-Mart an unfair advantage. I don't believe it... What we hear is concern that in some circumstances, Wal-Mart may actually be paying more than our competitors.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
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Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.
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If we do not die for liberty, we shall soon have nothing left to do but weep for her.
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Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.
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The goal is to learn more about telomere length and other markers of ageing, how best to measure these markers, how they are related to health and lifestyle, and how people respond to learning their own telomere length results.
