Nina Fedoroff Quotes
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It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
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Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her attention in the morning.
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Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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I was never totally what we would now call 'politically correct,' even in my most militant phase. I always liked good food, good wines. I suppose it was because I had total confidence in myself.
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I think they tried the 3-D revolution at least five times throughout history, and it never seemed to work. However, finally, 'Avatar' did it.
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The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.
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I do not remember the '70s, for who-knows-what-all reasons.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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The more we can grow on already cultivated land, the better.
