Carol W. Greider quote: "I enjoyed biology in high school, and that brought me to a research lab at U.C. Santa Barbara. I loved doing experiments, and I had fun with them. I realized this kind of problem-solving fit my intellectual style."

What I found out on Christmas Day 1984, through biochemical evidence, was that telomeres could be le...
CAROL W. GREIDER

Federal funding for biomedical sciences plays a critical role in training the next generation of sci...
CAROL W. GREIDER

In junior high school, I learned that I could be good at school. I remember liking the freedom to ch...
CAROL W. GREIDER

My father worked in high-energy nuclear physics, and my mother was a mycologist and a geneticist. Af...
CAROL W. GREIDER

In 1978, Elizabeth Blackburn, working with Joe Gall, identified the DNA sequence of telomeres. Every...
CAROL W. GREIDER

What intrigues basic scientists like me is that anytime we do a series of experiments, there are goi...
CAROL W. GREIDER

As a kid, I thought of myself as stupid because I needed remedial help. It was not until much later ...
CAROL W. GREIDER

Students and postdoctoral fellows largely depend on the support of the public sector to finance the ...
CAROL W. GREIDER

RNase H is a specific RNase that will cleave the RNA of a DNA/RNA duplex.
CAROL W. GREIDER

I finished my Ph.D. at Berkeley in November 1987 and took a position as an independent fellow at Col...
CAROL W. GREIDER

I think actively promoting women in science is very important because the data has certainly shown t...
CAROL W. GREIDER

Science can promote an understanding between people at a really fundamental level.
CAROL W. GREIDER

One of the lessons I have learned in the different stages of my career is that science is not done a...
CAROL W. GREIDER

If you were to search for the genetic mutation behind this mouse's disease, you wouldn't find it; th...
CAROL GREIDER

We thought there might be some relationship between telomerase, telomere length and the survival of ...
CAROL GREIDER

We know it only takes one critically short telomere to make a cell die, so it's clear that the more ...
CAROL GREIDER

These offspring have what we have called 'occult' genetic disease -- their genetic make-up is perfec...
CAROL GREIDER

Normal levels of telomerase didn't lengthen short telomeres in our mice, so the longer the telomeres...
CAROL GREIDER

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody ritua...
WILLIAM GREIDER

The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.
WILLIAM GREIDER

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence...
WILLIAM GREIDER

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, ...
WILLIAM GREIDER

Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington.
WILLIAM GREIDER

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing ...
WILLIAM GREIDER

The great, unreported story in globalization is about power, not ideology. It's about how finance an...
WILLIAM GREIDER

If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in ...
WILLIAM GREIDER

Modern Americans are remarkably capable people, skillful and inventive in many ways, but they are no...
WILLIAM GREIDER

Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.
WILLIAM GREIDER

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others
WILLIAM GREIDER

The US financial position is rapidly deteriorating, due mainly to America's persistent and growing t...
WILLIAM GREIDER

The juggernaut -- the best and biggest military force in the world -- lumbers on, doing what it know...
WILLIAM GREIDER

Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be...
WILLIAM GREIDER

The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix...
WILLIAM GREIDER

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
WILLIAM GREIDER

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrup...
WILLIAM GREIDER

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.
CAROL BURNETT

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.
CAROL ALT

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it ha...
CAROL BURNETT

Comedy is tragedy - plus time.
CAROL BURNETT

We all get where we're going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted.
CAROL BURNETT

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can sur...
CAROL BURNETT

When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.
CAROL BURNETT

When I get tired, I start eating things that I wouldn't normally crave, like biscuits, because t...
CAROL VORDERMAN

I struggled for a while, but when I was cast in an Off Broadway show called 'Once Upon a Mattres...
CAROL BURNETT

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Brist...
CAROL VORDERMAN

I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star look...
CAROL BURNETT

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be fa...
CAROL BURNETT

I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
CAROL BURNETT

I very much enjoyed doing 'Law & Order,' playing a killer - that was fun, and they had a...
CAROL BURNETT

I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking...
CAROL BURNETT

I've always been able to recount things, and I have a really good memory about dialog and what p...
CAROL BURNETT

Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, whic...
CAROL BURNETT

I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
CAROL BURNETT

On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - i...
CAROL BURNETT

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.
CAROL BURNETT

Just scream! You vent, and the body just feels good after a good old yell.
CAROL BURNETT

I'm so happy with what has happened in my life.
CAROL BURNETT

I liked myself better when I wasn't me.
CAROL BURNETT

It is the instinctive wish of most American businesspeople, even those unlikely to be directly affec...
CAROL LOOMIS

When they are employed wisely, derivatives make the world simpler because they give their buyers an ...
CAROL LOOMIS

. . . while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray...
CAROL GILLIGAN

I can't be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can't be bothered - it's t...
CAROL VORDERMAN

In the 1987 stock market crash, according to the conclusions of the official Brady report, colossal ...
CAROL LOOMIS

I was a very lonely child and it's funy but the first word that comes to my head is "starved". I fel...
CAROL LEE

I think we're here for each other.
CAROL BURNETT

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
CAROL BURNETT

Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your e...
CAROL LEWIS

I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
CAROL LEIFER

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
CAROL BURNETT

Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the produ...
CAROL EVERTT

...As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evi...
CAROL TAVRIS

The real problem between the sexes is that for men, sex is a gender-underliner, they need it for the...
CAROL CLEWLOW

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
CAROL BURNETT

The product, abortion, is skillfully marketed and sold to the woman at the crisis time in her life. ...
CAROL EVERETT

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
CAROL MATTHAU

In 1980, aided by $1.5 billion in loan guarantees from the U.S. government and his own pitchman rout...
CAROL LOOMIS

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and...
CAROL GILLIGAN

New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of...
CAROL BELLAMY

I would love to have written Roger Zelazny's first five books of 'Amber.' What a great i...
CAROL BERG

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols,...
CAROL KANE

Limited partnerships are required to amend their filings whenever important changes, such as the adm...
CAROL LOOMIS

When I was in college at UCLA, I took a playwriting course. I was all set to be a writer. But I had ...
CAROL BURNETT

Some managements do not even think of buybacks as an option. The idea of shrinking their equity base...
CAROL LOOMIS

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
CAROL BURNETT

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by a...
CAROL BURNETT

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
CAROL SHIELDS

When I'm photographing, I think - like any rescue worker who deals with tragedy - you have to ha...
CAROL GUZY

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructe...
CAROL GILLIGAN

I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
CAROL BURNETT

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to te...
CAROL BURNETT

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
CAROL BURNETT

I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out ag...
CAROL BURNETT

Those with dissociative disorders face a big enough battle living as multiples and dealing with past...
CAROL BROAD

There needs to be a nationwide awareness programme for all NHS staff, to educate them about dissocia...
CAROL BROAD

... in some sense, she ignored her physical self, as if her body were merely something impersonal ve...
CAROL LEE

My parents never recognized the things that for me were achievements. I was praised for the things t...
CAROL LEE

I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia, an abnormal decrease of sugar in the blood. Eventually I learned ...
CAROL ALT

If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.
CAROL ALT

I don't eat celery. I eat raw milk, cheeses.
CAROL ALT

We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating th...
CAROL BELLAMY

I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childles...
CAROL LEIFER

But what attracted me to weeds was not their beauty, but their resilience. I mean, despite being so ...
CAROL VORVAIN

More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's o...
CAROL VORDERMAN

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.
CAROL BURNETT

Just be your authentic self because there's nothing sexier or more beautiful than that.
CAROL LEIFER

It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your...
CAROL ALT

The speed and trajectory of BlackRock's ascent have been breathtaking.
CAROL LOOMIS

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a ...
CAROL BURNETT

My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-roo...
CAROL BURNETT

I enjoy worldbuilding very much. I generally start with an approximation. With 'Flesh and Spirit...
CAROL BERG

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
CAROL CHANNING

I had gone to nursing school at Northampton Community College in my hometown of Bethlehem, Pennsylva...
CAROL GUZY

I have a whole box full of pieces of the Berlin Wall and a heart made from the barbed wire of the Ir...
CAROL GUZY

She suffered. She suffered a whole lot. And at one point I was praying for her to be released. You k...
CAROL BURNETT

When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go
CAROL BURNETT

She was a mountain girl, ... We brought some of her ashes here and placed them next to F.C. Jones. I...
CAROL BURNETT

People invite me to dinner not because I cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate grati...
CAROL BURNETT

I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
CAROL BURNETT

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
CAROL BURNETT

She said, 'Mama, if I can take it back ...,
CAROL BURNETT

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's whe...
CAROL BURNETT

I do think there are some great female comics: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph. Th...
CAROL BURNETT

I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like M...
CAROL BURNETT

I'm hooked on Glenn Close in 'Damages.'
CAROL BURNETT

The good thing about a dealer's derivatives portfolio is that it is marked to market.
CAROL LOOMIS

I believe in lieu of the Katrina situation last week it is even more important that we are prepared ...
CAROL MILLER

The faculty will be a little more relaxed this semester, because we know that problems are inevitabl...
CAROL MILLER

I came in Tuesday and took a tour of the building for the first time. My first impression was that E...
CAROL MILLER

Many people have been able to return to their homes. We expect to spend most of today assessing dama...
CAROL MILLER

People have really improved their recycling efforts.
CAROL MILLER

It was very moving and extremely needed, ... We are a conservative campus where this is not talked a...
CAROL MILLER

The goal is to have at least one quarter of the amount of trash that would have gone to the landfill...
CAROL MILLER

So far this year we have taken in 108.5 tons of recyclable versus the estimated 65.6 tons collected ...
CAROL MILLER

The students were definitely the first priority, that's why they have finished all the classrooms. T...
CAROL MILLER

We could always use more, but we are getting back on schedule after the holiday.
CAROL MILLER

Say you get to some place and you can't find an ATM. I will only get one or two or three days worth ...
CAROL MICKELSEN

Europe is very close to what you would find in the U.S. If you're going to a very small town in Amer...
CAROL MICKELSEN

[Europe is closest to North America in its density of ATMs.] ATM machines are all over the place. Th...
CAROL MICKELSEN

In Poland, we could pay for groceries with a credit card. Surprisingly enough, campgrounds take char...
CAROL MICKELSEN

In Poland, we could pay for groceries with a credit card, ... Surprisingly enough, campgrounds take ...
CAROL MICKELSEN

Say you get to some place and you can't find an ATM, ... I will only get one or two or three days wo...
CAROL MICKELSEN

Response times will be better.
CAROL MEYER

You as a resident need to make yourself prepared and knowledgeable.
CAROL MEYER

I'd say we're probably one of the most prepared counties in the country.
CAROL MEYER

It's awesome. I thought it would be a wonderful opportunity. I very much favor the Philharmonic.
CAROL MEYER

Trauma funds aren't going into the San Gabriel Valley, but paying for the trauma patients that get t...
CAROL MEYER

We both do all the work, but we each have the places where we shine.
CAROL MCNEELY

We think every home needs at least one, or maybe two or three, decorative rooms.
CAROL MCNEELY

We tailor finishes to people's personalities.
CAROL MCNEELY

We want people to know that we do more than stripes and polka dots.
CAROL MCNEELY

She was a feisty woman. She was a clown. She made everyone laugh. Everyone loved to be around her.
CAROL MARSH

It all happened very fast. In 10 minutes, the whole thing was gone.
CAROL MARSH

This is how close we were.
CAROL MARSH

My grandmother was a feisty woman. That's probably the best way to describe her. She was still deliv...
CAROL MARSH

Our guests, when they arrive on board, they are going to see that. When they depart, they are going ...
CAROL MARLOW

The response has been remarkable.
CAROL MARLOW

We spent longer than we had planned in Fort Lauderdale, which meant that the itinerary has had to be...
CAROL MARLOW

Cunard has the unique distinction of having the only true liners in the industry, and we're proud to...
CAROL MARLOW

We gave our guests a compensation package which we felt was fair, and clearly it's not our intention...
CAROL MARLOW

Queen Victoria will be a classically-styled Cunard queen, offering the very best of our heritage, al...
CAROL MARLOW

The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.
CAROL MANN

Her swing changed in a way I hadn't seen before. She quit turning and got steep. She stopped being a...
CAROL MANN

The Open is the home of the over-try.
CAROL MANN

Before mental skills can really make a difference, a golfer has to develop swing skills and course m...
CAROL MANN

[Cherry Hills will be used as support for the argument that Wie's path will leave her not only with ...
CAROL MANN

What happens is that women tend to panic when they're losing it. Whereas, generally speaking, men, r...
CAROL MANN

It pretty much becomes an off-leash day every day. That's what's happening now again.
CAROL MAJESKE

If they don't follow the rules there may not be any choice in the future but to do further restricti...
CAROL MAJESKE

Those who choose not to follow the rules may ruin it for the dog owners that are complying.
CAROL MAJESKE

It's just a stressful situation for wildlife who are already stressed out in the winter.
CAROL MAJESKE

That's the age when classes start to become departmentalized and this could be the first manifestati...
CAROL LOEWITH

The problem with these classes is that the tutoring is usually done in small groups rather than one-...
CAROL LOEWITH

Before you run off to a million different tutoring systems, have the school test the student to see ...
CAROL LOEWITH

Before you usher them off to a tutoring center it would really pay for the parent to talk to the tea...
CAROL LOEWITH

What you're doing is, you're paying $22.8 million for the privilege of putting up $100 million. At t...
CAROL LICKO

Scripps is not being difficult in this. We've tried every which way to come to agreement with the co...
CAROL LICKO

[Scripps] would have never bet its institute on this. They didn't do it on Mecca, and they're certai...
CAROL LICKO

Scripps is a science institute. We don't want to be suing the county.
CAROL LICKO

The party here that is trying to renege on their agreement is the county. Where's its obligation to ...
CAROL LICKO

He had all these tricks he used. He's not a dumb person, by any means. He just didn't get it in scho...
CAROL LEWIS

People really seem to like the larger facility.
CAROL LEWIS

Near the end of the year, we always run short.
CAROL LEWIS

The community is generous, but with all the bills going up, it?s getting expensive to run.
CAROL LEWIS

We have not behaved well as a board of education. It is a disgrace and a shame. We need to rectify t...
CAROL LEWIS

What these people say is true. It's really unfortunate.
CAROL LEWIS

This spin control stuff is not working when people are dying, ... You want to be supportive of the c...
CAROL LEWIS

They should have had acts that the young people can identify with. I'm not even feeling it. Maybe my...
CAROL LEWIS

I don't have the manpower to go out and check to see if people are smoking. We had to cut down on la...
CAROL LEWIS

Throughout history, when our national security has been threatened, we have responded by reducing li...
CAROL LEWIS

We'll give it a good shot. We could do well or we could get killed.
CAROL LEVINE

I've been teaching tennis for 25 years.
CAROL LEVINE

You make a lot of adjustments in the early years, and it gets easier.
CAROL LEVINE

It is a safe assumption,
CAROL LEVINE

Because men who do any significant kind of caregiving are often seen by family and friends as heroic...
CAROL LEVINE

Being thrust into the role of caregiver without any preparation is difficult under any circumstances...
CAROL LEVINE

They are not seen as doing anything but helping out, as kids are supposed to do.
CAROL LEVINE

This is a tremendous sense of guilt and burden that children should not have to bear.
CAROL LEVINE

We had no jobs, no place to live. At his first job he worked for $400 a month.
CAROL LEVINE

This does not have the earmarks of a long-planned management transition.
CAROL LEVENSON

Getting into a bidding war with J&J is bad enough. But getting into a cash-throwing contest with J&J...
CAROL LEVENSON

I enjoyed biology in high school, and that brought me to a research lab at U.C. Santa Barbara. I loved doing experiments, and I had fun with them. I realized this kind of problem-solving fit my intellectual style.

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Carol W. Greider

I enjoyed biology in high school, and that brought me to a research lab at U.C. Santa Barbara. I loved doing experiments, and I had fun with them. I realized this kind of problem-solving fit my intellectual style.

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