Rebecca Skloot Quotes

For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.

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• There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Always
  • Difficult

• It's only Western civilization that, God forbid, you talk about dying, when it's the only thing we know for certain, right? Everyone's going to die, so what's the big problem? 'Oh, God. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it.' I mean, I'm one of them. I'm not a big fan of talking about dying.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • God
  • Die
  • Problem

• I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life
  • Hurt
  • Dog

• Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Sound
  • Wine

• I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Children
  • Wish
  • Speak

• When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Work
  • Art
  • Design

• I think long-term, Bitcoin is a currency of the Internet. So, even if humans don't use it, routers will use it. Web browsers will use it. Web servers will use it.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Long
  • Think
  • Internet

• On one occasion, I accompanied my father to Pinares de Mayari. I was eight or nine years old. How he enjoyed talking when he left the house in Biran! There he was the proprietor of the land where sugar cane, pasture, and other agricultural crops were planted.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Father
  • House
  • Old

• It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Up
  • Important
  • Contribution

• When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • You
  • Information
  • Unknown

• Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Music
  • Process
  • Loved

• When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.

  

  Feist
  • Mean
  • Now
  • Hood

• What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Good
  • Power
  • Interesting

• We will fuck him. Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever fucked him!

  

  Karl Rove

• Only the heelOf splendid steelShall stand secure on sliding fate,When golden navies weep their freight.

  

  Arthur Quiller-Couch
  • Fate

• ...ingratitude is more common than you might think.

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• I'm guilty of going to a fitting, then going out to buy the same outfit. It's been a problem for my bank account!

  

  Blake Lively
  • Guilty

• One meal option is a piece of poached chicken the size of your fist with a green salad sprinkled with lemon juice, carrots, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, and celery. Another is a cup and a half of quinoa with minced veggies, all cooked at once so the quinoa absorbs the nutrients.

  

  Anna Kaiser
  • Option
  • Another
  • One

• I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• I intend to be the president of all citizens of Macedonia, regardless of their ethnic or religious background, regardless of their political standing. I shall not allow ethnic hatred and intolerance to undermine Macedonia's stability.

  

  Boris Trajkovski
  • Political
  • Religious

• I do think we need to at least register artificial intelligence units to be able to monitor and control them. Because we want to control them and not vice versa.

  

  Jens Martin Skibsted
  • Control

• For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.

  

  Rebecca Skloot
  • Growing
  • Research
  • Scientist