- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Time Quotes
Quotes marking moments across time.
This page brings together quotes where time plays a role - the surprising history behind common words, warnings about how quickly secrets become outdated once discovered, and fond memories of early scientific curiosity encouraged by family. It pairs well with Family Quotes for related reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents would drive us to Florida every spring in this big old, rusy Suburban, and we'd collect stuff on the beach for our aquarium back in Ohio; we had this big saltwater aquarium back in Ohio. Every time we found anything, any mollusk, my mom would bring out the guidebook and quiz us on what it was, so that stuff was built in early.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My ribs ache from all the texts I'll never make time for.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been so interested in both the visual beauty of mollusks and the tactile feel of them. As a kid, I collected them all the time.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in reincarnation. I feel like we're here for such an appallingly brief period of time. I believe we each get this one trip, and if we're really, really fortunate, maybe we get 70 or 80 years on Earth.
- You
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need to be imagining all the time, imagining yourself outside the walls of your own skull.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are definitely roles within this industry that are industry-related, but to be a good actor, you really have to want to act first. At the same time, my goal was never to go to Hollywood to make movies. I think if you come here with that attitude, then you've missed a few steps.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the first time, we have the genetic sequences of all three of the players in the global malaria debacle: the parasite, the anopheles mosquito and the human. It's a very important milestone.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the immune system of man has in its advanced development is what we call immunological memory, so that once it sees something for the first time, when it sees it the second or the third time, it can respond against it in a way that's much more accelerated than when it sees it for the first time.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we look at a future where we're going to have to double our freight capacity, how do you create a freight system that's integrated across the country when you have 50 different freight systems that are built one state at a time?
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked with Dalton Trumbo, who served time for refusing to give up names of people that were accused of being Communists. I've always admired him.
- Nov 07, 2020
Without the discipline of having a wife to come home to, you end up just working all the time.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020