James D. Watson Quotes

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

James D. Watson

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TruthScienceSimpleAdventureWell

And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.

Joe Eszterhas

FocusPoliticsWaitingSayingVoice

Parts like Morse don't grow on trees. He's a great character.

John Thaw

CharacterGreatTreesGrowLikeHe

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

Stephen Fry

SpeechPhilosophyYouKnowSometimes

Performers should really go to the best schools, like Lady Gaga, you know, she went to NYU and had great teachers... It's best to really study your technique as much as you possibly can so you can have a long career instead of a quick one that's a failure.

Tony Bennett

FailureGreatBestLongYouCareer

In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.

Tom Vilsack

EducationGrowthInnovationGreat

Although they arrived in New York penniless, my parents scraped together enough savings to establish the first of several small businesses just after I was born.

Robert Fogel

TogetherNew YorkParentsSmallBorn

If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage, saying that their taxes are at risk, I actually disagree.

Tom Cole

PeopleSayingThinkAmericanYou

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

Jay Weatherill

CivilityStriveAlwaysSomething

My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.

Douglas Coupland

WorthHouseKindPersonalTwoYeah

You give me enough shots, I'll average 20. You give me a particular system where I stick close to the basket, I'll average 10 rebounds.

Chris Bosh

MeEnoughYouSystemStickGive Me

The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.

Christopher Columbus

NatureBreatheAprilAirDelicious

Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.

Christopher Buckley

AgeImpossibleIsolationShortJust

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