Carol W. Greider Quotes
It takes years to realize the multiple benefits of science; without adequate, sustained funding for research, the careers of many bright, young scientists may come to a screeching halt.
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There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.
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I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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I was watching the Danish version of 'The Killing' when I got the audition for 'The Fall,' and I loved it; it was so original. I approached 'The Fall' with that in mind. I'd no problem with the violence - it was very clear from the script how horrifying the crimes were and that had to be shown, without going to extremes.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I am proud of my heritage and my family.
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Science is not gadgetry.
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There's a crazy energy in Toronto. I think some of that may be from being a border from where I'm from and being so close.
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My roots are more in he Beatles, Zeppelin, the whole 60's side.
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It takes years to realize the multiple benefits of science; without adequate, sustained funding for research, the careers of many bright, young scientists may come to a screeching halt.
