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Harold E. Varmus Quotes

I'm used to being surrounded by really smart 22-year-old students who have no problem saying that something I suggested is not a very good idea.

Harold E. Varmus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 18, 1939

Topics

Good Smart Saying Problem Something

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

Good Community Trust Finance Wealth

As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?

You Honey Grandfather Say Right Get

Academic experts may not be good at doing what they are experts in themselves, but they are good at explaining the subject matter to others. They write books, teach courses and offer lessons and give steps others can follow.

Good Doing Teach Matter Follow May

Does any new parent, even if you're not a first-time parent, ever really know what to do?

Robert Downey, Jr.

Parent You New Know Even Really

I do want to make music that people love, but I also want to make music that I love. I know I can't please everyone with anything I do, so I don't think too much about how other people are going to take things.

Love Music People Think Too Much

When I realized that my big dream was going to come true - 'Night Shift' was a success, 'Splash' was a success, I got the job to do 'Cocoon' - suddenly, I was underway. And I knew my name was rising up the lists. I was going to have a career. I was going to be able to direct movies until I screwed it up.

Success Job Night Name Career Dream

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

Michel de Montaigne

Me Play More She Cat Her

If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle.

Good Goals Football Game You Look

The next couple of jobs will determine, at least from a business point of view, if I'm a guy who's actually the real thing or I'm a guy who's had a nice moment.

Business Moment View Point Of View

I don't believe the government should determine what a woman does in this area any more than it should tell a chief executive how to run a company. Personal and family matters, relationships between doctors and patients should not be within the purview of government.

Christine Todd Whitman

Family Woman Government Believe Run

The Cyrillic and Greek scripts in particular have an alien beauty in their unfamiliar letterforms. Five weights of stroke thickness create subtle variations in light and dark that reflect the emerging and fading of the stars.

Beauty Stars Light Dark Alien Five

Part of being innovative in government is sometimes not trying to plot out the last chapter of the book, but to be open and see what comes back.

Government Book Trying Back Chapter

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