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Roderick MacKinnon Quotes

I always say to my students that being a scientist is like being an explorer, and I really mean that because, in a sense, I think in science we explore the world, the universe around us.

Roderick MacKinnon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 19, 1956

Topics

Science World Think Universe Say Us

There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way.

Jim Parsons

Best Doing You Drama Way Mean

I basically was a precocious little kid.

Michael Ironside

Kid Little Little Kid Precocious

You don't get a chance to buy a company like NBCUniversal unless it's not doing well.

Steve Burke

Chance Doing You Company Buy Well

When my father died, my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies, there is that shock: 'Oh man, I'm an orphan.' There's also this relief: It's done; it's finished; it's over.

Roz Chast

Father Mother Man Think Parent Done

We can't end poverty if we fail to save the lives of our world's mothers.

Liya Kebede

World End Poverty Fail Mothers Save

I definitely know that I'm quirky. I know that I'm different. Red hair definitely made me different growing up.

Jayma Mays

Red Me Growing Up Hair Growing Know

I want Maggie Gyllenhaal. I don't know why. I don't think she necessarily looks like me or acts like me, I just think she's a cool actress and she could play me, so there you go.

Diablo Cody

Me Cool Think You Looks Play

The Internet is a big place where a lot of people can voice their opinions, and my mother chooses to pick fights with random people from all over the world who don't have the nicest things to say about me.

Chris Evans

Mother People Me Random World Voice

I guess we guess our way through life. How many times do we really know for sure?

Chely Wright

Life Know Way Through Sure Our

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

Conor McGregor

Ahead Something Steam Full

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Booker T. Washington

Life Youth Feel Done Will Race

Personally, I don't give a toss about French viewers. I make films for foreigners - it's a bit like Ken Loach, who's not very popular in England but has had a lot of success in France. Cinema is always an experience in a foreign body.

Bruno Dumont

Success Experience Body Cinema Give