Nina Totenberg Quotes
What's really amusing is that you see - when you look at everybody's statements that - on both sides of the aisle, they've talked out of both sides of their mouth, depending on who's in power and who's not.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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I love to smile.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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I am attracted by almost any French word - written or spoken. Before I knew its meaning, I thought 'saucisson' so exquisite that it seemed the perfect name to give a child - until I learned it meant 'sausage!'
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When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.
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I think sometimes when you play those extra shifts, it gets you into the game a little bit more and gets you a little bit more involved.
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I wrote a lot of plays when I was little, and I made everyone in the neighborhood perform them with me. I was probably a really annoying friend to have when I was little.
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We've all been sick; we're all afraid of infection. I think the easiest application to help people understand what quorum sensing is and why it's important to study is to tell them that if we could make the bacteria either deaf or mute, we could create new antibiotics.
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I sound like a racist, a benighted man or a xenophobe, but I'm motivated by love for my country and the knowledge that I don't have another country.
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Wherever you are, that’s your stage, your circle of influence. That’s your talk show, that’s where your power lies. ... You have the power to change somebody’s life. Everyone has a calling, and your real job in life is to figure out what that is and get about the business of doing it.
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It's not a question of how much power you can hoard for yourself, but how much you can give away.
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What's really amusing is that you see - when you look at everybody's statements that - on both sides of the aisle, they've talked out of both sides of their mouth, depending on who's in power and who's not.
