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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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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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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I give myself a non-negotiable eight-hour sleep opportunity every night.
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Love the giver more than the gift.
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I would be on dates with guys, and the radio would be on, and if the Moody Blues song came on I couldn't concentrate on the guy; I would go straight into the music.
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In a startup, there have to be challenges. Otherwise, someone else would have done it already. And that's almost the most exciting part.
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Hatha Yoga teaches us to use the body as the bow, asana as the arrow, and the soul the target.
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Standing up and teaching is grueling, but grueling fun.
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We usually think that a strong economy leads to an increase in life satisfaction among the population. We found that's not the case in Scotland.
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Definitely, when you get into something where bands are playing for 30,000 people, it's not like the post-punk, U.S. independent scene.
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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.
