Research Quotes - Page 34

• I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Thinking, Cells, Way

  "Back on trail, Elizabeth Edwards pushes stem-cell funding". www.cnn.com. March 26, 2007.

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• Manufacturers account for nearly 60 percent of all industrial research and development.

  John Engler

  Research And Development, Accounts, Percent

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• Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

  Brian Eno

  Avant Garde, Done, Want

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• We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Choices, Regulation

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• When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.

  Paloma Faith

  Song, Distance, Writing

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• Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Jobs, Cancer, Yale

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• Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high, prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare, 'Thank you?'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Thank You, Pain, Marijuana

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• The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'

  Vera Farmiga

  Character, Self, Different

  "Vera Farmiga's Unforgettable Role". PARADE interview, parade.com. November 6, 2008.

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• I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

  Renee Fleming

  Simple, Emotional, Grandfather

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• The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.

  Ken Follett

  Fun, Firsts, Hardest

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• The CIA's research program is described in a book called "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

  Ken Follett

  Book, Swag, Program

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. December 15, 2000.

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• I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour.

  Michael J. Fox

  Mean, Differences, People

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• The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.

  Michael J. Fox

  Way, Moments, Parkinson's

  "The Givers : What Inspires Michael J. Fox? A Very Personal Interview". Interview with Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2012.

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• There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.

  Virginia Foxx

  Lying, Cells, Exaggeration Is

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• When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid.

  James Franco

  Crazy, Stupid, Doe

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• When you take somebody's quote out of context, which happens all the time, nobody's ever going to go and do the research on their own and figure out that you got it wrong.

  Thomas Frank

  Figures, Happens, Of Context

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. February 18, 2011.

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• I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

  Clifford Geertz

  Writing, Literature, Fields

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• I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

  William Gibson

  Media, Quests, Tiny

  "William Gibson Talks Zero History, Paranoia and the Awesome Power of Twitter". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. September 7, 2010.

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• The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.

  Daniel Goleman

  Impact, Research And Development, Environmental

  "How Daniel Goleman Is Changing Our Ideas About Living Green". Interview with Aimee Lee Ball, www.oprah.com. April, 2009.

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• I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

  Jane Goodall

  Communication, Teaching, Writing

  "New mission for chimps' champion". Interview with Ros Coward, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2004.

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• Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week.

  Temple Grandin

  Teacher, Children, Thinking

  Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 01, 1996.

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• What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.

  Temple Grandin

  World, Crosses, Divides

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• In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the mathematics for my understanding. I need to have a visual picture in my mind. I'm constantly translating from the math to some intuitive mind's-eye picture.

  Brian Greene

  Eye, Math, Understanding

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• I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way to justify to myself all those wasted hours of watching TV as a kid. I can now look back and say, 'Oh, that was research.'

  Matt Groening

  Kids, Watching Tv, Looks

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• I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Writing, People, Fiction

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