Edward Boyden Quotes
There are many things that we still don't understand about the universe, right? Einstein struggled to bring quantum mechanics and gravity together and never succeeded, and that's a problem that to this day is not well understood. Well, maybe to comprehend some of these things, we need to augment our intelligence. If we do, who knows?
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A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm even more of a dissident than I was then.
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The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
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No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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One thing that people don't really understand is that as celebrity you rarely get fair treatment. You either get love or hate. It's never really fair.
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In '32 we organized the Young Negroes' Cooperative League and had some degree of success in terms of establishing stores and certainly buying clubs in various sections of the country. I was designated as - I don't know what exactly - I believe it was director. I'm not sure what it was, but it had to do with getting out the necessary mail and all of that - organization.
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I’m trying to learn more about international law to understand why we don’t have better solutions for conflict - for dictators or aggressors that are hurting or raping children or using them as child soldiers. Why can’t we have an international community handle these things in a swift, efficient manner?
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Your circumstances don't dictate your future. ... Your circumstances don't limit you.
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There are many things that we still don't understand about the universe, right? Einstein struggled to bring quantum mechanics and gravity together and never succeeded, and that's a problem that to this day is not well understood. Well, maybe to comprehend some of these things, we need to augment our intelligence. If we do, who knows?
