Nina Fedoroff Quotes
If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools could do more to build these subjects into their coursework.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.
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If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are just a little kid.
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
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I just took everything so seriously in my early twenties. But now I'm like, 'life can be fun.' You don't have to overthink everything. I've found a way to be more at peace with things. I'm looking forward to turning 30.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.
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If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.
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China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture.
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Faust complains of having two souls in his breast. I have a whole squabbling crowd. It goes on as in a republic.
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The nature of this melancholy becomes clearer, once one asks the question, with whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathize. The answer is irrefutably with the victor. Those who currently rule are however the heirs of all those who have ever been victorious. Empathy with the victors thus comes to benefit the current rulers every time.
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After a major terrorist attack, every society faces a choice between fear and resolve. The world’s great democracies can’t sacrifice our values or turn our backs on those in need. Therefore, we must choose resolve. And we must lead the world to meet this threat.
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It is a frequent vice of radical polemic to assert, and even to believe, that once you have found the lowest motive for an antagonist, you have identified the correct one. - 'Reactionary Prophet', The Atlantic, April 2004
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Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.
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I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring.
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Peter Boyle on Everybody Loves Raymond is more of an insane Dad.
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You are the mother, the father, the sister, the brother, the teacher and the guide for the soul that has been placed in your trust.
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If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.
