Gary Wolf Quotes
Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
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It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it's a contract that is governed by the state, and I don't want the state to have control over my personal affairs.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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I am constantly accused of being 'First World.' So what should I do? I can't apologise for my environment, upbringing, aesthetic.
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I always separated sports and my personal life.
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My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
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That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.
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I've never worried about life's big questions.
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I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.
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I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.
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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
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Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.
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Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.
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When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things.
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Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.
