Joshua Lederberg Quotes
I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
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When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
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I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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I think you need to be intentional at times about your leadership - where you're eating lunch, who you're interacting with, making guys feel like you're interested in what they're doing. If it's authentic, then it's going to be an easy conversation and easy hangout time.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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Film has always been where my heart is.
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People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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'In My Hands,' the title track, is my very first vocal attempt, and I'm not a singer as such. But I've always wanted to express myself vocally on my albums, and I don't really have much of a capability for singing. The strength is in, I think, the lyrics and just speaking. It just comes from inside.
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What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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No sport - maybe no business - is more entrepreneurial than boxing.
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I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
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There were only ever two black kids at my school. I never considered myself to be 'a black kid'. I was who I was. Which isn't to say things haven't happened to me that wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.
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I thought 'Skyfall' was a sumptuous film.
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I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more the goodwilled imitation of that emotion, and for this reason it was a temptation to exaggerate, to throw a rope of superlatives across the abyss that divided experience from its representation by anecdote.
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People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.
