Harold E. Varmus
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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 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 As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment jou... 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 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 HAROLD E. WAGONER I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself. HAROLD E. HUGHES E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS 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 E. E. EDDISON E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS 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 E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS 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 closesE E CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS E. E. CUMMINGS HAROLD PINTER I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect. HAROLD RAMIS 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 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 HAROLD ROSENBERG HAROLD ROSENBERG HAROLD ROSENBERG HAROLD ROSENBERG HAROLD ROSENBERG 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 HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE HAROLD PRINCE 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 HAROLD NICOLSON 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 HAROLD MACMILLAN HAROLD MACMILLAN HAROLD MACMILLAN HAROLD MACMILLAN HAROLD MACMILLAN HAROLD MACMILLAN HAROLD MACMILLAN HAROLD MACMILLAN HAROLD MACMILLAN HAROLD MACMILLAN HAROLD MACMILLAN HAROLD MACMILLAN HAROLD MACMILLAN
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