Craig Venter Quotes
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
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Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
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I have no deep-seated desire to be famous; that's not what's driving me, so if it's something I don't want to do, I don't do it. Maybe it's stubborn, but any choices, if you don't like them, yell at me, because it for sure was my bad.
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Job-interviewing is just a skill. Like any skill, some people have more of a predisposition for it than others.
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Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.
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Is there a gender gap in the music industry? It is true that there are more professional male music creators than female. For some reason, it's taking a lot longer in music than in literature and the visual arts to reach equilibrium. It was almost acceptable by the 19th century for female writers to be published, yet it's only in the last couple of decades, since about 1980, that historical female composers have really emerged.
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I couldn't think. The basics of my life seemed altered and thrown into question. After all, our families - our ancestors - are our identities. Biology is destiny.
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It's fun to be creative and innovative and come up with something crazy. So I need people to work with who are not going to be afraid to take it to the left a bit.
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I don't want to negotiate with the power brokers in Washington; I want to tear them down.
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Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.
