Michael Specter Quotes

The passengers in our microbiome contain at least four million genes, and they work constantly on our behalf: they manufacture vitamins and patrol our guts to prevent infections; they help to form and bolster our immune systems, and digest food.

Michael Specter

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When I was growing up, Sunday lunch was my favorite time as a child. We would have a big Sunday English meal, and we would argue about things.

Joanna Coles

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Judd Apatow, together with me and Lena, we're all the showrunners of 'Girls.'

Jennifer Konner

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So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.

Matthew Vaughn

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For years I exercised to be thinner, and I never got the results I wanted. When I finally started working out to be healthier, I saw a transformation. I've even quit weighing myself so I don't obsess over the numbers.

Judy Reyes

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I'm a middle-aged dad, which means I have no social time or life to speak of, and so I connect with my buddies with my Xbox.

Dee Bradley Baker

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On the Internet, news is consumed a la carte. If someone shows up on the main page of a website and doesn't see anything of interest, they leave. This negatively impacts ad revenues. The solution on the Internet is to pack news websites full of things that will draw people in, regardless of whether they are news or not.

Drew Curtis

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Attention to any subject will in a short time render it attractive, be it ever so disagreeable and tedious at first.

Dorothea Dix

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I can't really say how big the cult is. But I'm proud of it. I'm proud that it has a life.

Bob Odenkirk

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I kind of feel like... I have a slower instinct than most live-action directors, but I have more patience.

Pete Docter

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We leave people alone when they need us most.

Sheryl Sandberg

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I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.

Paula Cole

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I think it's very admirable, in a superhero movie, to be able to take a few risks.

Shane Black

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