Harold E. Varmus Quotes

Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more effectively controlled on its own terms.

Harold E. Varmus

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PrinciplesWillMoreCancerOwn

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

Joe E. Lewis

MoneyPovertyBuyOne ThingOnly

Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.

Marty Meehan

BecomeTortureUnitedClearBeen

One of the questions I get asked a lot is, 'What do you do to stay in shape?' My glib answer is, 'I play.' But I mean it. Sure, I go to the gym, but I don't spend my life there. Most of my activity is outdoors, whether it's basketball or mountain biking or rock climbing.

Jason Lewis

LifeMountainBasketballOutdoors

Unfortunately, the spouses of performers have a terrible, terrible life. They get shunted aside, pushed aside, ignored.

Dick Van Dyke

LifeGetTerribleUnfortunately

You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.

Douglas Coupland

LifeYouYoungOldBeingYour

I always had short hair, and I hated my short hair. I was always mistaken for a boy, but my mom wouldn't let me change my hair because she was always chasing me around with a hairbrush, and it was always tangled, so she just would cut it off, and she's right: short hair did suit me.

Dorothy Hamill

ChangeMeMomHairShortShort Hair

I've got young kids, so it suits me to do a job which keeps me in town right now.

Craig Ferguson

JobMeSuitsYoungNowRight

Think of the imagination as a giant stone from which we carve out new ideas. As we chip away, our new ideas become more polished and refined. But if you start by editing your imagination, you start with a tiny stone.

Brian Chesky

ImaginationIdeasStartThinkYou

It's the job of a special advisor to be the eyes and ears of a minister and it's the job of a corporate lobbyist to represent the best interests of their organization.

Thomas Watson, Jr.

EyesBestJobOrganizationSpecial

As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would they like to be the image and the performance of the New York Philharmonic?

Kurt Masur

New BeginningBeginningNew YorkMe

Every budget I have ever prepared has been balanced.

Ken Livingstone

BudgetBeenPreparedEveryBalanced

A lot of people decide, if you're mixed, you're black. And so they try to force you to choose a culture.

Kendrick Sampson

CulturePeopleBlackYouChooseTry

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