Joshua Lederberg Quotes
Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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How does one get bored of life?
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I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So when they start calling people my age, 18, up, I was one they called.
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I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.
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Those shows I did with Queen were pretty surreal. I was really excited and super-flattered, but intimidated at the same time.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.
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My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.
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Life was precious. Life was all that mattered. Yet it meant nothing if you weren't living as you wanted.
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I go through life with a smile because I know things can be worse than they are.
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Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.
