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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Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy.
Albert Bandura
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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.
M. Scott Peck
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.
Ben Bernanke
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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.
Zach Anner
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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.
Jay-Z
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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.
Billy Joel
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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.
Kabir Helminski
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My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.
Constance Marie
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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.
Octavius Winslow
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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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I wasn't raised in any way where I was forced to be a vegetarian, too. I always had the choice. My mom would say, 'I don't eat the stuff, so I won't cook it, but if you want to eat it, you can. Let me tell you why I don't eat it.' So she was open about it.
Alissa White-Gluz
The Agonist
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You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation where they don't know me.
Muhammad Ali
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A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture. I think it's important to have substance for what you're saying.
Hal Sparks
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Singing and entertainment are now my first priority.
William Hung
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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.
Rebecca Skloot
