Joshua Lederberg Quotes
I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.
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I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.
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When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
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I can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That's how it goes in my house, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.
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Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
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I wanted to be into fashion, but I was never the kind of person who could keep up with fashion trends, and I could never style my hair the way everyone else's was - my hair was very thin, so I couldn't do, like, the sprayed bangs everyone else was into.
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Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
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I know hockey is growing in the U.S., and it's becoming more popular, but anything to get the game out there and see how we view it. We view it as the best game in the world.
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For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
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Since Baby’s birth, she had learned that the first few months of motherhood were about fatigue and leakiness.
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Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I love you’ and ‘I love you too,’ the absent presence of desire comes alive. But the boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros: the boundary of flesh and self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realize I never can.
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They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.
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I don't know what God is. I don't know what death is. But I believe they have between them some fervent and necessary arrangement.
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When I was a little girl, there was this unbelievably cool female bus driver who'd work near us. I remember thinking I'd like to be her when I grew up.
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I think a beautiful person is one with a beautiful heart.
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I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.
