Craig Venter Quotes

We have 200 trillion cells, and the outcome of each of them is almost 100 percent genetically determined. And that's what our experiment with the first synthetic genome proves, at least in the case of really simple bacteria. It's the interactions of all those separate genetic units that give us the physiology that we see.

Craig Venter

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I want to die at my desk.

Jerry Della Femina

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The unnatural, that too is natural.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The most horrifying thing I ever did was work as a steward on an airplane. I wanted to get hired by United. I thought, 'With my languages, this will be amazing; I will work in First Class.' But I could only get a job with an airline going from Newark, New Jersey to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

John Grant

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Surrounded by all the members of my dear family, enjoying the affection of numerous friends, who have never abandoned me, and possessing a sufficient share of all that contributes to make life agreeable, I lift my grateful eyes towards the Supreme Being and feel that I am happy.

John James Audubon

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A lot of coaches make it harder than it should be. Some are too hard on themselves, obsessing about controlling everything, not trusting their assistants, worrying about time.

Jeff Fisher

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You have to take all the ups and downs that come your way like a pinch of salt. Just leave everything behind. Forgive and forget.

Amruta Khanvilkar

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For myself, I would rather take less roles and be working on films that I'm passionate about, that are going to challenge me and that I'm going to be growing from. I don't ever want to take a movie just for the sake of working.

Amanda Crew

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The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.

Steven T. Katz

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My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.

Robyn Davidson

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I'm the kind of guy that if I go to a concert and hear something that knocks me out, I don't want to be left out of that. I'm going to try to get into that, and I'm running back home to practice.

Roscoe Mitchell

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I'll do anything to make my kid laugh.

Michael Pena

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Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist machines. His theory of satire is based on this view, and he finds plenty of evidence to support it in contemporary practice.

Louis MacNeice

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