Nina Fedoroff Quotes
We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.
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If I have anything, it's tenacity.
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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I'm sure other people in the business have considered reasons why they're doing what they're doing, but I do think that if you're gay you have a responsibility to come out.
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I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters. And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.
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In Richard Wright, Dad found a literature of himself. He'd read Manchild in the Promised Land and Another Country, but from Wright he learned that there was an entire shadow canon, a tradition of writers who grabbed the pen, not out of leisure but to break the chain.
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Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.
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A rap is a tweaked version of comedy, because comedy came first. People weren't spitting before they were doing comedy. Comedy has been relevant for years. It's the same art form, pretty much. Discovering that and applying it, I think that has made my stand-up better.
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We always felt that there was some hanky-panky going on with our money. We were the No. 1 group in the world, but we weren't paid like that.
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I'm just hoping my children will get enough of a foundation to remember what it was like before technology, how good that feels. Because I remember.
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We have a large amount of data that shows playing fast-paced games improves hand-eye co-ordination, the ability to focus on the task at hand, and your ability to make decisions, as gaming improves your brain's allocation of resources.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as individuals and as communities.
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Cell genetics led us to investigate cell mechanics. Cell mechanics now compels us to infer the structures underlying it. In seeking the mechanism of heredity and variation we are thus discovering the molecular basis of growth and reproduction. The theory of the cell revealed the unity of living processes; the study of the cell is beginning to reveal their physical foundations.
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Mass incarceration will have to be dismantled the same way it was constructed: piecemeal, incrementally and, above all, locally.
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Not a lot of siblings have opportunity [of realizing ourselves and realizing each other], because they're always being pushed together so much. They need their time apart in order to realize themselves and realize who they are.
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We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.
