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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I don't believe I have slept with an under-age girl. It was only recently that I found out that under-age is 18 in this country, okay, but I don't believe that I slept with anyone under 18 in this country.
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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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Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy.
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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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After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold.
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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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One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.
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I still subscribe to the minority view that all horses are offensive weapons and not to be trusted a yard.
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God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.
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A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
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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.
