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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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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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.
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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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My goal, as always, is simply to inform the public about an issue that is nearly impossible for them to learn about on their own. That is my only goal as a reporter.
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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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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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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.
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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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I don't really do simple. I'm not really interested in simple at the end of the day, because nothing's ever simple, and nothing's ever perfect. People certainly aren't - I would hope, anyway, because that would be boring, wouldn't it?
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I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have so much more shape and I'm about finding what to engineer around those shapes.
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We lost my dad in 2009 to leukemia. He taught me everything I know, and I love him very much.
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I started out in journalism in the mid '90s working for the sister wire service of the 'Wall Street Journal,' which is called Dow Jones Newswires. Then I joined the 'Journal' in its Brussels bureau back in 1999.
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It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.
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If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism.
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I think a lot of things do influence me, but the influence mechanism is as such that these things dive into your brain and bury themselves into your subconscious and you're never quite sure where and how they're going to emerge. I don't think I really take direct influence.
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The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.
