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.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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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.
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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.
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I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.
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What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.
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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!'
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I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.
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For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.
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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.
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I am very shy with people I don't know.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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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.
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I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. 'Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette,' she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.
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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?
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I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.
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One of the interesting applications of symbolic systems is artificial intelligence, and I spent some time thinking about how to create a brain that operates the way ours does.
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I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion.
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What makes me happy about the show, and what I hope people take away from it is: "Just be yourself." I know that's supremely corny, but I really think that just being honest with yourself and being honest with everyone around you is the best way to live.
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I'd worked in music for years and built all these relationships, so I bought a camera, built a website, and decided to go for it.
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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.
