Nicholas A. Christakis Quotes

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

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• It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Nature

• In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Nature
  • Words

• Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Long
  • Done
  • Accomplishment

• One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Feeling

• There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Money
  • Death

• Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Bad
  • Wisdom
  • Too Much

• The striking surprise is that prophets of Israel were tolerated at all by their people. To the patriots, they seemed pernicious; to the pious multitude, blasphemous; to the men in authority, seditious.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Men

• There was no substitute for reality; one should be aware of imitations.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Reality

• Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

  

  Phillip Adams
  • Success

• I would definitely like to have a family, and whether that's with a man or a woman doesn't really matter to me. I've already got my friend who's going to be the donor, so that's taken care of. Just give me a few years and we'll go from there.

  

  Kristanna Loken
  • Family
  • Friend
  • Taken

• I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth.

  

  Joanna Southcott
  • Night
  • Earth

• In the past, when we've tried gene therapy, we haven't had tools that have allowed targeted gene correction.

  

  Jennifer Doudna
  • Past

• If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

  

  Alan Patrick Herbert
  • Earth

• Putting, say, an 85 per cent income tax rate is unlikely to bring in much revenue.

  

  Angus Deaton

• Just because a woman is over 50 does not mean she no longer has anything to offer. If anything, we have so much more to offer! We have lived life, we get better with age. I do my best work now in my 60s. Sure, I could retire; but what would I do? Play Bingo? I think not!

  

  Dawn Wells
  • Life
  • Work
  • Age

• I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.

  

  Bram Fischer
  • Fear
  • Wish

• I don't have regrets I didn't spend more time with my family because I've lived my life to the full, and you can't look back in regret.

  

  Lech Walesa
  • Life
  • Time
  • Family

• When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Future
  • Past
  • Mistake

• I'm always blowing the speakers out in studios, like, there's smoke coming out of them. I found out that I'm not built for studio monitors. I record and mix down everything in the headphones and then I bring it to the speakers.

  

  AraabMuzik
  • Record
  • Speakers
  • Headphones

• We have to change the kind of free trade deals we sign. We would have to change the absolutely central role of frenetic consumption in our culture. We would have to change the role of money in politics and our political system.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Money
  • Political
  • Free

• I just like the people and the culture of Southeast Asia.

  

  Jim Webb
  • People
  • Culture

• It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

  

  Nicholas A. Christakis
  • Culture
  • Conversation
  • Genetics