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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It is wise to remember that too much success in the stock market is in itself an excellent warning.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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We wore blue jeans and T-shirts. Our music was our gimmick.
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Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.
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The real problem in Mississippi is almost a complete moral breakdown. In order to move Mississippi from the bottom to the top, all we have to do is just get people to do a little more what they know, to practice a little more of what they preach.
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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.
