Carol W. Greider Quotes
Federal funding for biomedical sciences plays a critical role in training the next generation of scientists.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
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I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
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I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.
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I'm rediscovering Scotland; I'm falling in love with it again.
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People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave,' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool.'
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I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.
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I'm not sure what 'cheeky' means. I hear it used so much and in so many different ways, I can't identify the real meaning of it.
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Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.
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I'm kind of like a bit of everything wrapped into one.
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I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.
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Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.
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I felt like the world of baseball in 1919 was much closer to what A-ball would be now - guys riding buses, there's no training staff, and there's a lot of paranoia.
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The soap opera was so long ago - the thing about soap operas, and there's something to be said for doing it, but you do a script a day. I don't want to say it's a training ground; it really isn't, but what it does teach you is discipline.
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A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
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I love fashion, and I love how it makes me feel, but it doesn't rule my life.
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Federal funding for biomedical sciences plays a critical role in training the next generation of scientists.
