Chris Toumazou Quotes
For me, the ability to use semiconductor sequencing to provide a medical diagnosis in just a few hours that once took days is a crucial step in saving the lives of patients. This is particularly significant for the treatment of sepsis, where every minute matters.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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The highest state is laughter.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.
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I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.
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My focus has been and will continue to be on doing my job.
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I'm a terrible actor. I would suck in films! The only way I would do well is if I was playing myself, which is what I did in my career.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work in fashion.'
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I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.
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There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.
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In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.
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Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
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My aunt was so attuned to commercials that she could always identify the voiceover actor.
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At the prom, you are more about boys thinking you're cute. On the red carpet, you have to please everyone because there are a lot more people looking at those pictures.
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I was always an independent, even when I had partners.
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I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.
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While it is not always profitable to analogize 'fact' to 'fiction,' La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.
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It's my only religion to work hard, and then I'm not under any pressure because I know I've done the work on the character.
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How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
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I write the occasional entry for the 'Times' Theatre blog, especially when I'm in London and seeing two shows a day, but I don't tweet. I don't want to have to express my opinion in 140 characters. That's like writing haiku. You need a certain amount of legroom to review a play properly.
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Compliant children are very easily led when they are young, because they thrive on approval and pleasing adults. They are just aseasily led in their teen years, because they still seek the same two things: approval and the pleasing their peers. Strong-willed children are never easily led by anybody--not by you, but also not by their peers. So celebrate your child's strength of will throughout the early years...and know that the independent thinking you are fostering will serve him well in the critical years to come.
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For me, the ability to use semiconductor sequencing to provide a medical diagnosis in just a few hours that once took days is a crucial step in saving the lives of patients. This is particularly significant for the treatment of sepsis, where every minute matters.
