Joshua Lederberg Quotes
If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.
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We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.
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I particularly want more acting. I've been auditioning a lot, and I definitely want to act.
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In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
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I was about 13 or 14 when I heard Malcolm X's speech 'Message to the Grass Roots.'
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
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I stay away from heavy-handed stuff, the good guy and the bad guy. It just doesn't interest me; all it does is create more fences between people, I think.
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I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.
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I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.
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After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.
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For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
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Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'
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If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
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The Greens will threaten the future of our strong economy. They will destroy jobs and put Victorian families at risk.
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Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.
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At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.
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A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated.
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If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.
