Belinda Johnson Quotes
Every woman who proves that it is not about gender but about excellence paves the way.
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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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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.
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No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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I gravitate toward edgy, intense, dark films that just grab you by the throat.
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The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
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Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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I am angry when I hear things like Cheney whispering into Bush's ear on the way to Obama's inauguration to ask him to pardon 'Scooter' Libby and not to 'leave a soldier on the battlefield'. What kind of metaphor is that for his petty partisan views, when you have men and women giving the ultimate sacrifice? I have nothing but contempt.
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«We have to manufacture machines that allow us to continue manufacturing machines, because what machines will never do is to manufacture machines in turn.»
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Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?
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Life is what you make it... and nowhere close to making mine the best it can be.
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I don't want to have anything to do with that: just the fame without personal respect for your privacy.
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The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me. Pound the life from my body. The flesh from my bones. The pain from my heart.
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THE HE-ANCIENT: When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truthSTREPHON: Yes; and take all the fun out of it.
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There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.
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Every woman who proves that it is not about gender but about excellence paves the way.
