David Lilienthal Quotes
It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which science is put, in resolving the many public policy questions that scientific discoveries constantly force upon us.
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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I can just sense some eyes, some people kinda stare a little bit like they recognize me but don't quite know for sure kinda thing.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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I don't like to talk about myself.
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It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
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After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.
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People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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My ambition is to get better as an actor.
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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
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Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
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Geoffrey Robertson: You don't think that this man deserves to die?Yusuf Islam: Who, Salman Rushdie?Robertson: Yes.Islam: Yes, yes.Robertson: And do you have a duty to be his executioner?Islam: Uh, no, not necessarily, unless we were in an Islamic state and I was ordered by a judge or by the authority to carry out such an act - perhaps, yes.
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I'm very positive - music-wise, production-wise and life-wise.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
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False stories used to affect me initially. But now, I've come to understand that if false stories are created, they are also forgotten in the long run.
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I'm a man of convictions. If you press me about how I feel about an issue, you're going to see my convictions.
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The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think better. You're braver, and you'll say anything. If you could just hang in there with two or three, it'd be beautiful. The trouble was I couldn't.
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It is chiefly upon the lay citizen, informed about science but not its practitioner, that the country must depend in determining the use to which science is put, in resolving the many public policy questions that scientific discoveries constantly force upon us.
