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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We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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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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Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.
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A president can't go to every memorial service.
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If you are not frightened, you are not original.
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If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.
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A society is judged by the way it cares for its most vulnerable citizens. As an American, I am ashamed that we have turned out backs on millions of our children. I want to do my part to rectify this terrible situation.
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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.
