Nina Fedoroff Quotes
The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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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.
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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.
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
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China's got a billion people and a hit record over there is a million records. You know that ain't right.
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As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.
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I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
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Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice; being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.
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At nos non imperium neque divitias petimus, quarum rerum causa bella atque certamina omnia inter mortales sunt, sed libertatem, quam nemo bonus nisi cum anima simul amittit.
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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.
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Children are given Mozart because of the small quantity of the notes; grown-ups avoid Mozart because of the great quality of the notes.
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How many artists subscribe to the notion that creative success depends on input from the fickle muse or her modern avatar, mental illness? Probably very few.
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Directors tell me what to do, and I kind of just put my own twist to it, just to get inside my personality that everybody doesn't really get to see - my off-the-court interests and the way I act. It's just me.
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The study of music was a family interest.
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Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.
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No matter what the Constitution says, it won't endure if the people don't closely read it and demand that it be followed.
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I'm not a superhero - I'm a super worker!
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Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
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The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.
