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I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

~Brian Eno

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Epigenetics doesn't change the genetic code, it changes how that's read. Perfectly normal genes can result in cancer or death. Vice-versa, in the right environment, mutant genes won't be expressed. Genes are equivalent to blueprints; epigenetics is the contractor. They change the assembly, the structure.

~Bruce Lipton

Topics: Assembly Cancer Change Changes Code Contractor Death Environment Equivalent Expressed Genes Genetic How Mutant Normal Perfectly Read Result Right Structure

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Getting on a popular, long-running show like 'Happy Days' is the actor's equivalent of winning the lottery.

~Bryce Dallas Howard

Topics: Actor Days Equivalent Getting Happy Happy Days Like Lottery Popular Show Winning

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To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.

~Calvin Harris

Topics: Cheek Different Different Place Embrace Equivalent Kiss London Man Own Place Rules Shoe Throw Very

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I'm trying to get my head in the game, think about the questions I wanted to ask, breast milk is flying everywhere - over my notes - and I - how do you 'lean in' at that moment? What is the equivalent of that for Wolf Blitzer or Joe Scarborough?

~Campbell Brown

Topics: About Ask Equivalent Everywhere Flying Game Get Head How Joe Lean Milk Moment Notes Over Questions Think Trying Wanted Wolf You

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

~Carl Sandburg

Topics: Actions Doomed Equivalent Failure Human Human Actions Principle

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In Olympia, Washington, many of us were writing songs that were the equivalent of bloodletting: This is the sound a wound makes; this is the screech of a scar. But Mary Timony was always more kaleidoscope than microscope, creating magical worlds replete with weaponry or sorcery.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: Always Creating Equivalent Kaleidoscope Magical Makes Many Mary Microscope More Scar Songs Sound Than Us Washington Were Worlds Wound Writing

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There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of leggings with the elastic at the waist stretched to its limit and beyond - topped with the fashion equivalent of a tea cozy. And always black, because I was in mourning for my slimmer self.

~Carrie Fisher

Topics: Always Barely Because Beyond Black Could Cozy Days Elastic Endless Equivalent Fashion Limit Months Mourning Rounds Self Size Stretched Struggle Tea Waist Were

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The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

~Cesare Lombroso

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I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

~Charles Krauthammer

Topics: Also Am Believe Conception Conferred Deserves Embryo Equivalent Human Moral More Religious Respect Than I Am

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