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Joshua Lederberg Quotes

If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.

Joshua Lederberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 23, 1925 - February 2, 2008

Topics

Yourself You Be Careful Years Far

We should have won this one. I think it is a lost opportunity.

Opportunity Think Lost I Think Won

Everyone loves characters that are relatable or who have unique quirks or tragic flaws.

Unique Flaws Everyone Who Tragic

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Forgiveness Acceptance Tolerance

I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.

Myself Training Person Go Out Up

Communism may be over as an economic system, but as a model of state domination, it is very much alive in the People's Republic of China and in Putin's police state.

Michael Ignatieff

Police People Communism Alive Over

Working with Bruce Willis makes my career authentic. I may not get an Oscar, but I worked with Bruce Willis. That matters more to me.

Me Career Matters More May Working

To the man who reads 'Scouting for Boys' superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

Robert Baden-Powell

Man Religion Practice Book Him Soon

Don't crop ears or tails or declaw cats; it's really painful. People think it's necessary, but it's painful for the animal, and it's completely unnecessary.

Cats Animal People Think Painful

Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.

Fear Truth Speak Without Artists

A certain kind of person in America loves to note that they're currently soldiering through the latest Pulitzer winner for history, in particular. It connotes a certain gravitas, a connectedness to the literary and intellectual scene that most upwardly mobile professionals in America still desire.

History America Winner Person Desire

Any narrative, whether it's fiction or not, you have to approach it as though it really happened to you. I think that's the only way to get inside the characters and make the narrative work. It's a storytelling tradition, and I think to come off as genuine then you have to really approach it that way.

Work Think Tradition You Genuine

I've played the guitar since I was 12, I've played the piano since I was 15.

Guitar Piano Played Since

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