Joshua Lederberg Quotes
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 changed my life completely, turning me into an activist. From the air, you see things you can't see from the ground - you really understand the impact of man, even in a place you know well. My work is meant to convince people we can no longer live like this.
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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.
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I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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I channel surf like probably most people.
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In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
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If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy and sick.
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Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.
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Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations.
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The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.
