Joshua Lederberg Quotes

If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.

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• I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Thought

• You need to have time to really hear God.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Time
  • God
  • Need

• I wanna thank the German people for the incredible partnership that our countries have been able to establish all these years.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • German

• Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • Wisdom
  • Understand
  • Discover

• I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Thing
  • Appearance
  • Employ

• During my early period I had custom-made overdrive stuff because I didn't like what they were making at the time.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • Time
  • Stuff
  • Custom

• During overdubs, I'd pick up whatever looked interesting at the moment or whichever guitar I hadn't played yet. I like having such a broad palette to dip into.

  

  Dave Navarro Jane's Addiction
  • Guitar
  • Played
  • Pickup

• I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.

  

  Sebastian Horsley
  • Happy
  • Wanted

• Cinema through spectacle, through the entertainment of spectacle, tells the story of many actual problems in life. Because who ever doesn't want to read between the lines can just enjoy the entertainment and the show and can go home happy.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Home
  • Problem
  • Enjoy

• Keep putting out good. It will come back to you tenfold in unexpected ways.

  

  Farrah Gray
  • Way
  • Unexpected

• Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live in harmony, in unconditional friendship.

  

  Bokar Rinpoche
  • Friendship
  • Harmony
  • Short Time

• I'm not sure that Eastern culture does either, but I've never lived in India etc so I couldn't tell you. I can say we definitely don't. So people will sometimes come in contact with something strange and think, "Oh, it must be like this" and have a lot of fantasies about it, and somebody who sort of looks like our fantasy version of what enlightenment is can be very convincing in seeming like they've got something and then play that role.

  

  Brad Warner
  • Culture
  • Role
  • Fantasy

• The Kaiser was enough of a man to stand a tough, confidential message--and enough of a woman, presumably, to retreat if it could be made to look glamorous.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Woman
  • Message
  • Retreat

• It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.

  

  Edward Frenkel
  • Mathematics
  • Lover
  • Spouse

• We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent, Nor aim beyond our pow'r; For, if our stock be very small, 'Tis prudent to enjoy it all, Nor lose the present hour.

  

  Nathaniel Cotton
  • Stock
  • Content
  • Relish

• We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.

  

  Raymond Williams
  • Working
  • Middle
  • Standards

• We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

  

  William Deresiewicz
  • Impulse
  • Certainty
  • Trial

• If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
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