Rebecca Skloot Quotes
I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.
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Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.
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An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
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Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.
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Maybe we just like winners, ... We hope some of that will carry over to the Redskins.
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We owe it to the American people to take our time to be sure the nominee will uphold their most basic and fundamental rights. The public demands this from the process, and deserve no less.
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Nobody is talking about the different - until you raised the issue.
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I have said I have met Satan, and this is true. But it is not tangible. It no more has horns, hooves and a forked tail than God has a long white beard. Even the name, Satan, is just a name we have given to something basically nameless.
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Feminism is the result of a few ignorant and literal-minded women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the superior sex. Once women made it public that they could do things better than men, they were, of course, forced to do them.
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The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.
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My friends from the University of Texas. I've had the same friends for over a decade. My brother films a lot; he usually edits my Workout Wednesdays. All the people who work on my projects are amazing.
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By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.
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The happiest times in my life were when my relationships were going well -- when I was in love with someone, and someone was loving me. But in my whole life, I haven't met the person I can sustain a relationship with yet. So I'm discontented about that. I'm angry with myself. I have regrets.
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The person who makes all cares into one care the care for simply staying present will be cared for by that presence which is creative love.
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My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.
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So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, He created the tree upon which He was to die, and nurtured from infancy the men who were to nail Him to the accursed wood.
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The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.
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I think the last few weeks for me have been just a very different emotional experience. Something I never thought I would feel myself. And I find...a lot of things affect me differently now. As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.
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Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.
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Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.
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On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.
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From 1973 to 1982 I ate the exact same lunch everyday . Turkey chili in a bowl made out of bread . Bread bowl George. First you eat the chili then you eat the bowl . There's nothing more satisfying than looking down after lunch and seeing nothing but a table.
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I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.
