Harold E. Varmus Quotes

As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.

Harold E. Varmus

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Football should never be a worry. It should be exciting. When a child plays football outside, he doesn't need to worry. Professionals should be the same.

Johan Cruyff

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Marriage isn't about a collection of scenes over ten years of two people telling each other that they love each other. It's about commitment.

Jeff Nichols

LoveMarriageCommitmentPeopleOver

The people who were in college in the '50s were my first real audience, and their kids, the people who found my records in the cabinet during their 'Mad 'magazine years picked me up also.

Tom Lehrer

PeopleCollegeMeMadFirstReal

I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does.

Tom Petty

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Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don't recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Robert Baden-Powell

HappinessHappyPeopleBelieveRich

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Donald Rumsfeld

DoingYouMayMuchCriticized

I have never met an author who did not read voraciously as a child.

Christopher Fowler

ChildNeverWhoReadDidMet

The nation certainly would have been better off if President Clinton could have focused on Osama bin Laden without being distracted by the Paula Jones sexual harassment case and its criminal investigation offshoots.

Brett Kavanaugh

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I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.

Sebastian Bach

CrazyGetJustStillOnceLess

For me, every one of our projects is a research-and-development project.

Thomas Heatherwick

MeProjectOurEveryProjects

Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.

Thomas Bulfinch

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I do think there is room at the very top for marginal tax changes.

Richard Hanna

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