Joshua Lederberg Quotes

I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.

Joshua Lederberg

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• In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.

  

  Gary Herbert
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• In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
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• I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'

  

  Wayne Dyer
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• I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
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• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
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• Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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  • Easy

• For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

  

  Gay Talese
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• I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
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  • Music
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• I am very shy with people I don't know.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.

  

  Nat Turner
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  • Water
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• We have a Gujarat State Wide Area Network. The optical fibre network. We are the largest in Asia, number one. We are number one in Asia. And we are second largest in the world. Can you image how we are using the technology?

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Technology

• Don't want terrorism in US? Stop importing Muslims!

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Stop

• If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you.

  

  Avery Brooks
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

• He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Present

• I don't count that relationship with Ricky. It's just like a blip at this point. I had to fall in love with the devil himself to get this sweet angel, Jack.

  

  Christie Brinkley
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  • Fall
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• I love music, and I love sports. I played sports all throughout school.

  

  Elliot Knight
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  • School
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• I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some Handel, mostly songs and arias; I like Schubert's and Beethoven's chamber music and Sibelius' symphonies; for opera, I listen to Mozart and in recent years Wagner.

  

  Colm Toibin
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• My attitude towards peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs

  

  Margaret Cho
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  • Words

• War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Believe
  • War
  • Failure

• This getting old is something. I think I envy my dog, because my dog is sixteen, and she's limping, and she's still living, but she doesn't look at me like she knows. She's not thinking what I'm thinking. It's a cruel trick that we all know the ending.

  

  Albert Brooks
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  • She
  • Dog

• The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Advice
  • Give
  • Someone

• I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Purpose