Jodi Picoult Quotes
Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, … It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.
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We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed around by a white owl to several different locations, and little things like that, or certain mishaps would happen and you'd have to wonder what that was about.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.
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I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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I took opportunities, big or small, to show that I was a constant professional. I feel like the Sam Jackson of network TV drama.
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
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The power suit is over.
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Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, … It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.
