Joshua Lederberg Quotes
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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.
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You need to have time to really hear God.
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I wanna thank the German people for the incredible partnership that our countries have been able to establish all these years.
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Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.
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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.
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During my early period I had custom-made overdrive stuff because I didn't like what they were making at the time.
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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.
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I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.
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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.
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Keep putting out good. It will come back to you tenfold in unexpected ways.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.
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Yale has influenced the Central Intelligence Agency more than any other university, giving the CIA the atmosphere of a class reunion.
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We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs 'down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream.'
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Note to self... Sex with blow-up doll is not as good as advertised.
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I make movies. I'm not in politics.
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Anytime you adapt work of somebody who you respect, as much as I respect him, it's an enormous responsibility. In honoring that responsibility, what we try to do is to continually use his work, and the writing that he did about his life and his work, as our guide. That starts with his intent for what he was trying to express when he wrote it, and it extends to his intent overall.
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If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.
