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Kary Mullis Quotes

Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.

Kary Mullis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 28, 1944

Topics

Work People Start Sick You Know

You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will. Gradually, gradually you gain that confidence.

Joan Didion

Confidence Moment Talent Writing You

I remember going on carriage rides with Dad when we'd visit. I think quiet L.A. suited him better, but he loved to see shows here, he loved to visit his friends in the Hamptons.

Jennifer Grant

Think Loved Better Friends Remember

My organization, my colleagues and I, are paid to run hotels in good times and fair times. We're professionals. That's what we do. I don't give a damn about the short-term market implications.

Steve Wynn

Good Good Times Organization Run

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

Boy George

Wisdom Yourself End Surprise You

I consider myself to be a citizen of the world.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

Myself World Citizen Consider

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.

Arthur Keith

Nature Good Men Desire Escape Our

Very early in my career, I thought I had to conform to one style of leadership - lead by being the loudest one in the room, with the sharpest elbows.

Peggy Johnson

Leadership Style Thought Early Room

I feel like I'm not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?

Shakira

Feel You Earth Know I Feel Like

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

Nicolas Cage

Science I Can Movies Science Fiction

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

Marjane Satrapi

Life Day Death Me Drawing Every Day

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

Marianne Moore

Silence Feeling Deepest Always Shows

The only thing I command is respect.

Kyrie Irving

Respect Command Only The Only Thing