Jennifer Doudna Quotes

One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

Jennifer Doudna

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• It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • World
  • Strong
  • Peace

• I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Good
  • Women
  • Game

• CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a cradle for technology and innovation, and a shining concrete example of scientific cooperation and peace.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Peace
  • Technology
  • Inspiration

• We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Justice
  • Peaceful

• China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • World
  • Power
  • Energy

• If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • World
  • Music
  • Unite

• One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Women
  • Dream
  • Strong

• Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• For Christmas 1999, my husband surprised me with a trip to Disney World. Along with our boys, we were standing on the roof of the Contemporary Hotel at midnight on New Year's Eve 2000 watching fireworks explode over every amusement park in Orlando. It was a magical way to celebrate the millennial, and a never-to-be-forgotten Christmas present.

  

  Karen Robards
  • World
  • Present
  • Husband

• Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Good
  • History

• On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • World
  • Good
  • Hearing

• People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Violence
  • Poverty

• I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Women
  • Think
  • Society

• I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • World
  • Think
  • Woman

• I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • World
  • Hero
  • Loved

• Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • World
  • Movie
  • Stars

• I'm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies with strollers.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

  

  Annie Leibovitz
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Dream
  • Single

• The real trick to auditioning is just letting go of trying to please them. Make it your own. That took me a long time to learn.

  

  Allison Janney
  • Time
  • Long
  • Real

• TV's not the same buzz. If someone tells you three million people watched the show last week, that's good but, when you walk out in front of 1,000, you think, 'Oh my God, this had better be good'.

  

  Jimmy Carr
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

  

  Jennifer Doudna
  • World
  • Women
  • Leadership