Nicholas A. Christakis Quotes

Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to think about the inevitable genetic revolution in medicine that is going to allow us to advertently change our genes over centuries and even decades.

Nicholas A. Christakis

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When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

Jesse Harris

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I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it's the most complicated thing in the world.

Angelina Jolie

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I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.

Michael Cerveris

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What I argue is that if I'm going to be held accountable for my actions that I should be allowed to record... my actions. Especially if somebody else is keeping a record of my actions.

Steve Mann

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There are not a lot of black men in the pop business.

Troy Carter

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If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they're going to cast the right guy.

Tom Sturridge

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I was always a simple guy. I was never one for extravagances.

Ronaldo

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In parenthood, there's so much fear around parenting in this day and age, and there's so much fear around technology.

Rosemarie DeWitt

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What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can't explain it.

Louise Wilson

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Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

Colin Quinn

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I'm pretty good at remaining calm during an emergency. My house burned down when I was 12, which made me really pragmatic about what needed to be done. But I can be bad in that I compartmentalize a lot of emotions and push them away to deal with them at a later date.

Anne Hathaway

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The only musicals I've really worked on in New York are new musicals, and I like the idea that my job as an actor is also that of a detective, archaeologist, and mystery solver.

Phillipa Soo

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