Ramez Naam Quotes
I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic test will ever tell you how many heartbeats you have left. No genetic test will ever be more accurate in telling an employer how well you'll do at a job than your performance at a past job would be.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I have lots and lots of party clothes. I mean real party clothes.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
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There is something about veganism that is not easy, but the difficulty is not inherent in veganism, but in our culture.
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The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into the tree trunk. Those were noisy and hot; they pulsed. These were silent and steady and all they did was remind her that she wasn’t good enough. She was seventeen, and every male she’d ever known had crumbled at her feet and it meant nothing. The one time it really mattered, she wasn’t good enough.
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Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.
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I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.
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I absolutely hated 'Gattaca.' I left the theater shaking my head because the science in the film was just terrible. No genetic test will ever tell you how many heartbeats you have left. No genetic test will ever be more accurate in telling an employer how well you'll do at a job than your performance at a past job would be.
