Joshua Lederberg Quotes

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

Joshua Lederberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SocietyThinkRiskSingleImagine

I think, like any artist or any writer, I just want to have that pure freedom of expression and of thought - the freedom to explore and move in unexpected ways.

Jhumpa Lahiri

FreedomThinkThoughtUnexpected

There's sacrificing for your art, and then there's just being dumb.

Megan Mullally

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My mother is a strong woman. Her strength comes from being tested by life's unpredictability. It comes from soldiering on for her children, even when she might rather have given up. I know it hasn't always come easily, but I also know it's her greatest gift.

Matt Lauer

LifeStrengthMotherChildrenWoman

In the U.S., there are around 300 shows in different networks, so there's a lot of work here.

Aml Ameen

WorkHereDifferentAroundNetworks

American oil companies - including Amoco, Unocal, Exxon, Pennzoil - have invested billions of dollars in Azerbaijan and plan to invest billions more. As a result, they have developed a strongly pro-Azerbaijan position.

Stephen Kinzer

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There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Stephen Stills

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I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.

Sigourney Weaver

GreatSmallThinkInterestingSee

Sometimes we pee on each other before we go on stage.

Trent Reznor

GoSometimesStageOtherBefore

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Roger Tory Peterson

LifeBeginningEnvironmentalWorld

Once you recognize that all documentaries are performance, it's not a matter of 'if' they should be performance. They are performance, and they are performance precisely where people are playing themselves.

Joshua Oppenheimer

PeoplePerformanceYouMatterWhere

I think the best place to work in football is England.

Jose Mourinho

WorkBestFootballThinkPlace

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

Bryant H. McGill

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