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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
-
As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
-
In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
-
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.
-
I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
-
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.
-
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.
-
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
-
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.
-
Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
-
Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
-
I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
-
I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
-
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
-
I have lots and lots of party clothes. I mean real party clothes.
-
I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.
-
I was 18 when I first started working at a restaurant. I was a dishwasher. I only got the job because I wanted to go to Ibiza for vacation, and washing dishes was the only job I could find.
-
I know how to sell a brand and create excitement around something, and so when you combine those two together -entertaining and marketing - it's like things start to go crazy.
-
In our equities business, 49 of the 50 most important Lehman clients are back doing business with us. The flows are 75 to 80 per cent of what they were prior to the bankruptcy. The issues which damaged Lehman were around commercial mortgages and illiquid private equity assets.
-
If you see your brother about to be harmed and somebody is doing something, you must speak out. It takes courage to do that. Then you have to come out of yourself to do that.
-
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.
