Rebecca Skloot Quotes

Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus—and at the very same time—that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.

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• Famously cancer fighting, laden with vitamins, minerals, soluble fiber, and phytonutrients, broccoli and its relatives are among the healthiest ingredients of the human diet.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Fighting
  • Human
  • Cancer

• Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Change
  • Best

• I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Looks
  • Ego

• God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • God
  • Help
  • Team

• Brothers and sisters, love the earth. Be true to the earth, and do not believe those seducers who look longingly to the world beyond, casting suspicion on this world. Jesus is the greatest friend of the earth-Jesus who again and again, in the original spirit of Judaism, proclaimed love for the soil and love for the land. "Blessed are the peacemakers," he said, "for they shall possess the earth."

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Earth

• It is just a wonderful, wonderful time to be alive and to be able to be part of the ever-growing spiritual awareness that is happening around the world.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Time
  • World
  • Growing

• I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.

  

  Bessie Smith
  • Want
  • Drummer
  • Tempo

• Let me put it in a positive light, with that archive [of Anne Romaine], we have gained extensive knowledge about how [Alex] Haley and Malcolm X actually worked and how the book, the autobiography, was constructed.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Book
  • Knowledge
  • Light

• When people rely on cash instead of credit, they're more aware of their spending and end up automatically cutting back by about one-third.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • People
  • Up
  • Cutting

• When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • May
  • Experience

• As long as I get to be doing what I love, which is making comedy and that kind of thing, I feel lucky that I get to.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Long
  • Comedy
  • Kind

• I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.

  

  Lew Wasserman
  • Party
  • California
  • System

• I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.

  

  Elena Kagan
  • Time
  • Job
  • Responsibility

• It is base to take advantage of our rank or greatness by making fun of those placed beneath us in life.

  

  Madeleine de Souvre
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Greatness

• To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Engagement

• By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Power
  • Political
  • Military

• One of the most important things about looking youthful is to have a modern haircut.

  

  Evelyn Lauder
  • Modern
  • Important Thing
  • Haircut

• Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts--your set of talents, ideas, interests. You are an original. A masterpiece.

  

  Regina Brett
  • World
  • Chance
  • Destiny

• For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Man
  • Pleasure

• You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

  

  Michelangelo Antonioni
  • Space
  • Film
  • Actors

• What I'm trying to do is help people understand if for one day they could have the best day ever, where there energy and there focus and everything is super clear and they feel like a great golden god... if you do that one time you know you're capable of it and you can start working towards that. Most people I know have felt like crap without knowing it most of their life. They've never had a wonderful day. Once you have that day, you can learn how to kick more ass repeatedly.

  

  Dave Asprey
  • People
  • Trying
  • Focus

• Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of Americans, most of them white. And they did so on the same campus—and at the very same time—that state officials were conducting the infamous Tuskegee syphilis studies.

  

  Rebecca Skloot
  • Helping
  • Scientist
  • Millions