Carol W. Greider Quotes
Federal funding for biomedical sciences plays a critical role in training the next generation of scientists.
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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'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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People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
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A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.
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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
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Not everybody is going to like your songs. But you probably wouldn't hang out with those people anyway.
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Nudity is natural but not until a person accepts and loves who they are.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.
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Federal funding for biomedical sciences plays a critical role in training the next generation of scientists.
