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.

Rebecca Skloot

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• Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • History
  • Next
  • Begin

• An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Person
  • Changed

• Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Gift
  • Meditation
  • Unknown

• Maybe we just like winners, ... We hope some of that will carry over to the Redskins.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Hope
  • Game
  • Winners

• 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.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• Nobody is talking about the different - until you raised the issue.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Different
  • Talking
  • Issues

• Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Children
  • Performance
  • Affect

• 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.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • God
  • Long
  • True

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Purpose
  • Course
  • Enhancement

• 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.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• 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.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Song

• 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.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Person

• 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.

  

  Kabir Helminski
  • Present
  • Care
  • Creative

• My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.

  

  Constance Marie
  • Family
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Octavius Winslow
  • Men
  • Die
  • Jesus

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Truth
  • Age
  • Soul

• In a well-made garden every day is new.

  

  Allen Lacy
  • Garden

• Let's face it, I like Stanford grads. I'd always hear about this campus, and everybody is riding bikes, and people hopping into fountains.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Faces
  • Riding

• The backdrop for the dollar is negative. G-7 comments were negative while the foreign reserves issue has come back into focus and is going to be a long term negative factor.

  

  Ian Stannard
  • Issue
  • Comments
  • Backdrop

• Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and comes out with a melody. Other times, I may create a melody first.

  

  Carole King
  • May
  • Brain
  • Sometimes

• If you are to succeed in anything, you must first be able to imagine it.

  

  Emile Coue
  • Imagine
  • Firsts
  • Able

• I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.

  

  Rebecca Skloot
  • Firsts
  • Obsessed
  • Biology