Nina Fedoroff Quotes

We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.

Nina Fedoroff

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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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Country

• 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.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • American
  • Values

• I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Employ
  • Nobel

• Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Life
  • Better

• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Fast
  • Cricket
  • Village

• 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.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Responsibility

• If I have anything, it's tenacity.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Anything
  • Tenacity

• Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • Care
  • Poverty

• 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.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Day

• The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Men
  • Women
  • Short

• 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.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • People
  • Why
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Hand

• 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.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Dad
  • Literature

• Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Great
  • Technology

• 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.

  

  Jay Pharoah
  • People
  • Up
  • Art

• 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.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations
  • World
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Keri Smith
  • Good
  • Children
  • Remember

• 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.

  

  Daphne Bavelier
  • Hand
  • Focus
  • Brain

• But what I would say to my successor is that it is important not just to shoot but to aim. And it is important, in this seat, to make sure that you're making your best judgments based on data, intelligence, the information that's coming from your commanders and folks on the ground and you're not being swayed by politics.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Important
  • Information
  • Data

• I really do believe that anything in life - any obstacle or challenge - can be made better with humor.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Challenge

• One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.

  

  Matt Dillon
  • Important
  • Growth

• We're focused on doing the things that make the economy perform well, and as you do that, reduce deficits, for one, very important; secondly, keep growth rates high, very important.

  

  John W. Snow
  • Important
  • High
  • Growth

• Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • America
  • Community
  • Destiny

• We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can't support many more people.

  

  Nina Fedoroff
  • Growth
  • Population
  • Decrease