Nina Fedoroff Quotes
The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.
Nina Fedoroff
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
Samuel Butler
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
Barbara Broccoli
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
G. Gordon Liddy
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I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
Olivia Wilde
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No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.
G. H. Hardy
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I always think before an important shot: What is the worst that can happen on this shot? I can whiff it, shank it, or hit it out-of-bounds. But even if one of those bad things happens, I've got a little money in the bank, my wife still loves me, and my dog won't bite me when I come home.
Cary Middlecoff
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With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being dipped in bronze. Each victory added another coat.
Garry Kasparov
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He recalled Dr. Sarvis' favorite apothegm: When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
Edward Abbey
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As technical people, we are apt to be preoccupied with scores, not competence...
Neil Postman
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The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.
Nina Fedoroff