"The public schools I attended were dominated by……" — Harold E. Varmus
"The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading."
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22 Quotes by Harold E. Varmus
Harold E. Varmus has 22 quotes on this site.
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There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.
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I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long…
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship…
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As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.
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Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of…
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A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians…
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From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals…
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I saw my friends in medical school seeming to be more engaged with the real world. That provoked a sort…
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the…
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Cancer is a collection of many diseases with common principles, and each disease will have to be understood and more…
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The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we…
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All basic scientists who look to the NCI for funding should know that I will tolerate no retreat on the…
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More Athletics Quotes
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one of 176 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Athletics is a luxury.
— Roger Bannister
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Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to…
— Usain Bolt
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For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a…
— Usain Bolt
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
— Usain Bolt
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For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine…
— Avery Brundage
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Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.
— Trishelle Cannatella
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In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball…
— Parminder Nagra
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We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as…
— Jesse Owens
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The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way,…
— Jeffrey Archer
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Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice,…
— Frank Robinson
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The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we…
— Anson Dorrance
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