Nina Fedoroff Quotes

There are probably already too many people on the planet.

Nina Fedoroff

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• I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Death

• It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Single
  • Information
  • Changes

• I love blues. My grandfather did blues.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Grandfather
  • Blues
  • Did

• Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Good
  • Night
  • Light

• Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Stage
  • Morality
  • Boredom

• These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future, care about their neighbors and hope this storm will pass so they can focus on better days ahead.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Focus

• This is my wedding day! The day I marry Emmanuel! And the word 'wedding,' which she had always linked the happiness, now seemed austere, distressing, full of snares and revelations. She saw her mother, heavy and moving with difficulty. A vision of herself as a victim of the same deformity was vivid in her mind.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Mind
  • She
  • Mother

• I totally regret as a German what happened at this point of history. But when people ask me are you, as a German, feel responsible for the Holocaust? No, because I'm born 1965 and it would be completely un-logical to say I'm responsible, but as a country we are responsible.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • People
  • Country
  • History

• 'Don’t judge yourself,' he said. 'None of us are ever good at it.'

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Good
  • Judge

• Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • May

• Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten.

  

  Andre Breton
  • Learning

• I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.

  

  Audie Murphy
  • Long
  • Space
  • Taken

• Everybody knows when you're a struggling family; you don't really know it when you're a kid. But you do know the difference between stress and moments of relief where there's, like, this happiness.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Family
  • Moments
  • Stress

• I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.

  

  Matt Drudge
  • Death
  • Team
  • Makeup

• The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Men

• That messed me up, growing up in the public eye when I was a teenager. That's when everyone is trying to find themselves.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Growing

• We had every kind of audience you could name. Young, old, not-so-old, some older than old, some younger than young: they were there, they were there! There was everything.

  

  John Hunter

• I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.

  

  Bethenny Frankel
  • People
  • Money
  • Charity

• Going through 'The Partridge Family,' I looked up to people like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and all those guys. But as an actor playing a part, I had to sing what was right for the character and the show.

  

  David Cassidy
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• How do we get utopian thinking in a dystopian world? These days we aren't talking to each other - we're screaming and trying to hit each other over the head with rocks and sticks. A primitive fury has been unleashed by a president who has no culture, who cannot read, and who wants to determine power and aggression.

  

  Carolee Schneemann
  • World
  • Thinking
  • President

• Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Individual
  • Fiction
  • Taste

• There are probably already too many people on the planet.

  

  Nina Fedoroff
  • People
  • Planet
  • Many