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Mark Walport Quotes

It seems paradoxical that, as medical scientists make huge advances in discovering the mechanisms of common diseases, fewer and fewer innovative drugs are reaching the market.

Mark Walport

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: british
Birth: January 25, 1953

Topics

Medical Seems Common Market Make

We need financial regulation that allows businesses and the banks they use to have access to the tools that help keep prices of consumer goods - like groceries and home heating oil - steady, while ensuring that the taxpayers are never again on the hook for the types of wild bets that helped crash the economy in 2008.

Jim Himes

Home Financial Tools Help Oil Wild

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Virtue Conscience Sentinel

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.

Anish Kapoor

You Artist Seriously Beyond Always

I spent 12 years of my life writing stories without black people. That's insane to me. It's insane that I could have believed in magical portals and dragons and all that stuff, but to believe a black person could be experiencing those things was unimaginable.

Tomi Adeyemi

Life People Me Writing Believe

Writing is a great love of mine.

Micky Dolenz

Love Great Writing Mine Great Love

I have never fully exorcised shames that struck me to the heart as a child except through written violence, shadowy caricature, and dark jokes.

Louise Erdrich

Heart Child Me Violence Dark Never

It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For real? It's really called 'Sparkle?' I was wondering, too, how does 'Jordin Sparks as Sparkle' sound?

Jordin Sparks

Funny Sparkle Thought Said Sound

For a good chunk of Israelis, it doesn't matter who is in power when it comes to dealing with the Palestinians. Their focus was more on economic issues.

Jonathan Katz

Good Power Focus Matter More Who

It all comes down to when spring training comes. Do you want to go or don't you? If you want to go, you go.

Chili Davis

Training Spring You Down Go Want

The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now.

Clare Short

Words People World Political Problem

If I want people to connect to my words and my stories, I need to tell them where they came from. Because then, when you break into song, they have kind of a blueprint for why I wrote that song, so they can come to it with something they went through that helps them connect to it.

Brett Young

Words People Song You Want Kind

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Age Poetry Become Something Than