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It is not a Pandora's box that science opens; it is, rather, a treasure chest. We, humanity, can choose whether or not to take out the discoveries and use them, and for what purpose. John Sulston

Science Humanity Pandora Pandoras Box Out Rather Purpose Take Opens Box Chest Discoveries Whether Them Use Choose Treasure

In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?' John Tukey

Knowledge World Key Important Our Later Ease Our World Rather Direction Rating Merely Sooner Demand Sooner Or Later Most Quantitative How Answers How Much Questions Very Than Essentially Which Much Description Belief Asserting

John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are very different from mine, and he has been a spokesman for the very ambitious, long, rather academic novel. But I don't think that what he is saying, so far as I understand it, is so very different from what I'm saying. John Updike

Saying Age Long Own Think Books Mine Has-Been Temperament John My Own Rather Somewhat Writer He Spokesman Academic Although Understand Been His Ambitious Very Different Far Really Novel

I think the record industry has gotten to be more about labels wondering what the new single is rather than labels nurturing artists. It's gotten away from making a full album of music that someone would want to listen to all the way through. John Varvatos

Music Nurturing Single Think Way Would Record About Someone Rather More Through New Industry Making Gotten Labels Than Wondering Listen Artists Want Full Away Album

I always wanted to be a character actor rather than the poster boy that they tried to make me 100 years ago. An actor has a degree of responsibility to change for the audience, to give them something new each time, to surprise and not bore them. Johnny Depp

Time Character Me Change Responsibility Degree Character Actor Tried Bore Poster Poster Boy Give Something Rather Something New New Make Audience Boy Always Surprise Years Years Ago Than Wanted Them Each Actor Each Time

I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance. Johnny Depp

Fight Dance Rather Than

I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd. Johnny Giles

Rather Crowd House Empty Than Front Full Play

I'd rather sit in Jacksonville and do a different kind of work than get messed over. Johnny Van Zant

Work Sit Kind Rather Over Messed Than Get Different Different Kind

We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle. Joko Beck

Life Time Nature Looking Finding Rather Misery Puzzle Boundless Answer Caught Limitless Causes Perplexing Lot Contradiction Begin Same Same Time Being Which Us Aware

I like a naturalism to my dialogue and my comedy. I would rather have a few jokes sail by that might be more subtle than have every single joke hit hard. I would rather the comedy come out of character as opposed to feeling forced. Even if you're giving some laughs up for it. Jon Favreau

Character You Jokes Comedy Giving Joke Feeling Single Sail Few Every Out Laughs Would Some Rather More Come Like Forced Dialogue Opposed Up Hit Than Subtle Might Naturalism Hard Even

I like to laugh and have a good time rather than brood and be sullen. Jon Hamm

Time Good Good Time Sullen Laugh Brood Rather Like Than

I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the same way I look back on the middle of the 20th: as a time when seemingly respectable people supported discrimination against Americans simply because those Americans were different from themselves. Jon Meacham

Time People Will Young Believe Early Years Back Respectable Way Those Seemingly Rather Simply Supported Look Because Were Years Discrimination American Same Middle Children Different Against Century Themselves Who Early

If I had a choice, I would rather watch a comedian not involve themselves in politics at all but be hilarious than someone who doesn't really know what they're talking about getting on their soapbox and complaining. Jon Richardson

A 'nidiot' is something different from an idiot. An idiot is someone whose problems are caused by not concentrating enough. A 'nidiot' is someone who makes his life more complicated by thinking too much rather than not enough. I'm not an idiot, but I'm definitely a 'nidiot'! Jon Richardson

Bar owners tend to be social rather than operators. Most bar owners do not manage their numbers. They do not have spreadsheets or reports to manage their budget, cost, or inventory. I would say 90% of independent bar owners do not even have a budget. Jon Taffer

Say Independent Would Cost Rather Inventory Tend Budget Most Than Manage Reports Owners Bar Social Even Numbers

Putting somebody else in crisis mode and causing them to make quicker decisions, urgent decisions, rather than prolonged, more logical decisions can be very advantageous. So, to be successful in business, you have to understand the power of confrontation and how to use it correctly. Jon Taffer

You Business Logical Somebody Power Else Prolonged Crisis Correctly Rather More Putting Make Understand How Causing Very Quicker Mode Than Decisions Confrontation Them Urgent Successful Use

Something I learned early on in my career is there's no use trying to fool anybody about what you want to do on a project where there are other people involved, rather than your own thing. Jon Watts

You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so my only point on that is that it should open up an argument. It should not sort of settle one, because nobody disagrees with it. Jonah Goldberg

Good You Free Argument Prison Society Settle Worse Rapists Would Would-Be Rather Only Point Open Put Nobody Wrongly Make Sort Because Off Up Very Accountant Than Accused Poor Much Should

The truly great players have this advantage over the rest of the international elite, gifted though those others are: they have the ability to slow down a ball travelling at 90mph, to move before others can, to make the world adjust to their rhythm rather than the other way round. Jonathan Agnew

Great World Rest Slow Before Down Other Others Way Those Though Adjust Gifted Ability Rather Advantage Over Make Ball Truly Than Move Rhythm International Round Travelling Players Elite

There used to be rather serious firewalls between the artist and the buying public - the gallery, the publisher. And technology demolishes that wall and basically says, 'Self-promote or die.' And that is a bad head for any sort of artist to be forced into. Jonathan Franzen

Technology Says Bad Rather Head Between Forced Sort Wall Die Any Artist Public Gallery Used Serious Publisher Buying Basically

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