Harold E. Varmus quote: "As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements."

I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.
HAROLD E. VARMUS

All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on ...
HAROLD E. VARMUS

From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association wit...
HAROLD E. VARMUS

A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses f...
HAROLD E. VARMUS

Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.
HAROLD E. VARMUS

I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption o...
HAROLD E. VARMUS

I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in d...
HAROLD E. VARMUS

When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: ...
HAROLD E. VARMUS

The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly origin...
HAROLD E. VARMUS

I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a s...
HAROLD E. VARMUS

Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at th...
HAROLD E. VARMUS

In preparation for a career in academic medicine, I worked as a medical house officer at Columbia-Pr...
HAROLD E. VARMUS

The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I...
HAROLD E. VARMUS

I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's ...
HAROLD E. VARMUS

Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.
HAROLD E. VARMUS

I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a...
HAROLD E. VARMUS

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my in...
HAROLD E. VARMUS

Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching...
HAROLD E. VARMUS

Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying t...
HAROLD E. VARMUS

I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in can...
HAROLD E. VARMUS

We suddenly have the global view, the view of the Earth from the moon, and it's pretty thrilling.
HAROLD VARMUS

He has taken political stands that you can imagine some of his donors or board members might have fo...
HAROLD VARMUS

I hope this will change the city's image, and make people feel this is a place where biotech is and ...
HAROLD VARMUS

Clearly, there's tremendous untapped potential among the world's scientists to address diseases of t...
HAROLD VARMUS

We were overwhelmed by the scientific community's response,
HAROLD VARMUS

This is a watershed event in the history of biology. It is the first complete blueprint of a complex...
HAROLD VARMUS

We know this is ethically sensitive territory, ... the prospects of benefit to living human beings ....
HAROLD VARMUS

Let me die because I do not want to see the sun again.
HAROLD E. HUGHES

The great thing about being an architect is you can walk into your dreams.
HAROLD E. WAGONER

I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself.
HAROLD E. HUGHES

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS

The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS

Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS

who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS

The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS

The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS

and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS

I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS

next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS

he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS

and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS

"maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS

Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
Thats not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the criti...
HAROLD PINTER

I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
HAROLD RAMIS

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
HAROLD TAYLOR

If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
HAROLD WILSON

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.
HAROLD WILSON

I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep...
HAROLD WILSON

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
HAROLD WILSON

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
HAROLD WILSON

This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
HAROLD WILSON

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
HAROLD WILSON

A week is a long time in politics.
HAROLD WILSON

Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
HAROLD WILSON

I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
HAROLD WILSON

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
HAROLD WILSON

I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
HAROLD WILSON

One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.
HAROLD WARNER

Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
HAROLD WARNER

The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
HAROLD WARNER

We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
HAROLD TAYLOR

I don't think I have a black-hat image.
HAROLD SIMMONS

I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the ima...
HAROLD SIMMONS

I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm do...
HAROLD SIMMONS

Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given q...
HAROLD SIMMONS

The hooks didn't roll out any more sevens than my hands did before them.
HAROLD RUSSELL

I'm the last guy left. That's what happens when you live to 84.
HAROLD RUSSELL

My life is a series of things that just happen.
HAROLD RUSSELL

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widel...
HAROLD ROSS

Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
HAROLD ROSS

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, es...
HAROLD ROSENBERG

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
HAROLD ROSENBERG

The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a h...
HAROLD ROSENBERG

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of w...
HAROLD ROSENBERG

The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself fr...
HAROLD ROSENBERG

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of ...
HAROLD ROSENBERG

I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
HAROLD ROBBINS

Hemingway was a jerk.
HAROLD ROBBINS

My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're...
HAROLD RAMIS

I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time beca...
HAROLD RAMIS

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.
HAROLD RAMIS

The movie 'Vacation' had a whole different ending. They never even got to the amusement park...
HAROLD RAMIS

I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so ...
HAROLD RAMIS

Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that an...
HAROLD RAMIS

I'm at my best when I'm working with really talented people, and I'm there to gently sug...
HAROLD RAMIS

I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human ...
HAROLD RAMIS

First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with...
HAROLD RAMIS

I was raised Jewish and fully embrace the core beliefs of Judaism - the ones that I identify as core...
HAROLD RAMIS

I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at...
HAROLD RAMIS

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
HAROLD RAMIS

I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.
HAROLD RAMIS

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'...
HAROLD RAMIS

Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You...
HAROLD RAMIS

Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're fu...
HAROLD RAMIS

The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it ...
HAROLD RAMIS

I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.
HAROLD RAMIS

How one handles success or failure is determined by their early childhood.
HAROLD RAMIS

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
HAROLD PRINCE

One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.
HAROLD PRINCE

I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any se...
HAROLD PRINCE

I don't like abrasion while I'm working. I don't thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I'm d...
HAROLD PRINCE

I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in reh...
HAROLD PRINCE

I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think ...
HAROLD PRINCE

It's fine when you careen off disasters and terrifyingly bad reviews and rejection and all that ...
HAROLD PRINCE

The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it ou...
HAROLD PRINCE

A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
HAROLD PRINCE

I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stoppin...
HAROLD PRINCE

When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just...
HAROLD PRINCE

Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great star...
HAROLD PRINCE

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody wh...
HAROLD PRINCE

I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, provi...
HAROLD PRINCE

The truth of the matter is that I have lasted a long time, and with it comes both good and bad thing...
HAROLD PRINCE

I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move th...
HAROLD PRINCE

I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
HAROLD PRINCE

I get to hang out with people I think are awesome, and do work I think is awesome. It's really c...
HAROLD PERRINEAU

I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had e...
HAROLD PERRINEAU

You want to be on your toes; You don't want to be in a Nic Cage movie and just have him blow by ...
HAROLD PERRINEAU

The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
HAROLD NICOLSON

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
HAROLD NICOLSON

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We ...
HAROLD NICHOLAS

If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went th...
HAROLD NICHOLAS

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a stat...
HAROLD MACMILLAN

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

It's no use crying over spilt summits.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

To be alive at all involves some risk.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better...
HAROLD MACMILLAN

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
HAROLD MACMILLAN

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

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Harold E. Varmus

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

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