Carol W. Greider Quotes
As a kid, I thought of myself as stupid because I needed remedial help. It was not until much later that I figured out that I was dyslexic and that my trouble with spelling and sounding out words did not mean I was stupid, but early impressions stuck with me and colored my world for a time.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
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I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
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Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.
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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
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Sometimes it's a little bit like being a politician. We have work to do in understanding our users' sentiments.
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Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp.
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I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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Every time you talk to this person, you lie.
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Having a very serious thematic element in the lyrics and then juxtaposing with something really triumphant and just a big beat to dance to is a nice contrast to having a dark message.
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As a kid, I thought of myself as stupid because I needed remedial help. It was not until much later that I figured out that I was dyslexic and that my trouble with spelling and sounding out words did not mean I was stupid, but early impressions stuck with me and colored my world for a time.
