Bozoma Saint John Quotes
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Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.
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We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.
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Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.
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I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.
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It's about trying to step out of being patterned and closed off and reclusive, which I've always had a problem with. It's about attempting to be normal and just go out and be around other people and hang out. I have a tendency to sometimes be pretty closed off and not see people for long periods of time and not call anyone.
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Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
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One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.
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The press in India, I believe, is more free, and happily so, than perhaps media anywhere in the world. Right? Which is a good thing.
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To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same kind of mind that believes that a Holy Roller has got rid of sin.
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I firmly believe brand stories are complex and multilayer.
