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 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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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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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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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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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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Jack Benny: Where's that big glass star I told you to pack away last Christmas?
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'I hear you are going to In-jea. A most interesting country. I had a very good time there in my early youth. You must do the pig-sticking in Rajasthan. And you will find the people most agreeable in their own way. They have been most uncommonly decent to my niece.' (Galbraith, Ambassador’s Journal, 36)
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Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else-unless it is an enemy.
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The riskiest thing I have done in my fifties is to do a Polish accent for a new film. I had a great time working on it and two wonderful people to guide me. A dialect coach that I have known for thirty years and a Polish actor.
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I will say this - I certainly will not be voting for Hillary Clinton.
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Life is nothing but a mirror of your consistent thoughts.
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The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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I believe very deeply that this beauty I call the soul is not a random occurrence. I don't know what its meaning is at some larger level, but I know that it has meaning.
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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.
