James D. Watson Quotes

My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a half grade or move into more challenging classes. While it was all right for me to know more about a topic than my sixth-grade teacher had ever learned, questioning her facts could only lead to trouble.

James D. Watson

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I couldn't tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I want to play.

Jim Parsons

GoodCharacterUglyReadingYouBad

'Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.

Jo Nesbo

PastMeForwardVoiceStoryPresent

As a teenager, I didn't read a ton of teen fiction, and now I feel like I wish that I had.

Jesse Andrews

TeenFeelWishNowI WishFiction

I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, 'Where have you been?' and I said right here for now on!

Jerome Richardson

DayMeTryingYouKnowSaid

More and more smaller entities, such as Politico or TechCrunch, have been able to come out of nowhere and own entities. Dealbook, like them, now has an even greater opportunity, through additional resources, to drill down and offer even more breaking news and deep analysis of the issues that matter to our audience.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

OpportunityDeepDownNewsMatter

Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?

Andrew Shue

DeathBrotherPeopleLossYouYoung

Extraordinary things happen in solitude.

Michael Finkel

SolitudeThings HappenExtraordinary

UPS stands as an example of a company that's already doing great things.

Steven Horsford

GreatDoingGreat ThingsCompanyUps

The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.

Rob Lowe

LearningChallengeParentRightFail

I did want to share with you one of the greatest lessons I've learned over the years cooking for my kids - there is enormous value in bringing children into the kitchen.

Michael Mina

ChildrenCookingValueKitchenYou

I'm suggesting that, until America takes care of its debt, untangles the housing mess and gets unemployment under control, we all commit to working six days a week. Yep, move the standard 35-40 hour work week right up to 48 hours.

Jason Calacanis

WorkControlCareAmericaWeekDebt

British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

Jason Gann

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