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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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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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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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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The art of persuasion consists as much in that of pleasing as in that of convincing, so much more are men governed by caprice than by reason!
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The true measurement of a person's worth isn't what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those beliefs. If you're not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren't real.
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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
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The raw materials of photography are light and time and memory.
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Well I grew up in Canada in a really small town. We didn't have running water for a long time and we didn't have TV. Then when we did get TV we only had one channel.
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I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.
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Some days you have it; some days you don't.
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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.
