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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Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems.
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In the UK cycling was very popular until the end of the 1950's but it really lost out to our love affair with the car. Regaining a culture where cycling is seen as an everyday part of life requires time and effort. Of course in some British towns it never really went away - just look at Oxford and Cambridge. In other places, where the car has been king for many decades, it takes more time.
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Capitalism needs and must have the prison to protect itself from the criminals it has created.
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Ours was the first society openly to define itself in terms of both spirituality and of human liberty. It is that unique self-definition which has given us an exceptional appeal, but it also imposes on us a special obligation, to take on those moral duties which, when assumed, seem invariably to be in our own best interests.
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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.
