Craig Venter Quotes
You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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DeLillo never seems committed to me to what he is writing. Very nice surfaces, but he's got nothing underneath.
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You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.
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You always start a fight scene or an action scene with, 'What are we learning about this character at the moment, and how are we gonna arc him or her in the next three minutes,' and it's no different with 'Deadpool' or 'Atomic Blonde' or 'John Wick.'
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I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.
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You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.
