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'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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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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If everyone's ready for a shot to start, except for one actor who's intent on getting to the bottom of their soul, it can be a bit annoying.
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I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?
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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
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If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.
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I studied social studies at Harvard, which makes it sound like I was in seventh grade. It was a choose-your-own-adventure major, where you could decide what you were going to focus on.
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Passion without purpose is kind of pointless. I think God gives us the vision and wisdom to help enforce what he sees for us. You don't just sit at home and end up on 'Empire.'
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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.
