Joshua Lederberg Quotes
The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.
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I came down successfully through Picasso and Braque, down through Pollock, I guess, but I began to stop at Franz Kline and the Abstractionists. I like their design, brilliant design, marvelous color layers. But I don't find any human content there. I'm from an old school, and painting has to have human content for me.
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We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
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I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming, and I've been riding horses most of my life.
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One of the reasons I picked up the guitar is because I saw a video of Feist performing in Paris.
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One day, I want to make a PG film.
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If you're cast on 'The Vampire Diaries,' the likelihood of you dying is very good.
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Relationships are hard, so you have to know what type of man you want by your side and what their values are, what is important in his life.
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I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too … I got a song about that … But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.
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Shane looked…pale. Pale and shaken and—how predictable was this?—pissed.
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The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.
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Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.
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The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.
