Joshua Lederberg Quotes

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

Joshua Lederberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeGoodYouFindBuildTry

Sometimes you have to scare people to save their lives. But I'm very much against it if you're trying to sell a product.

Jerry Della Femina

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I'm enjoying simplifying things.

Jennifer Aniston

ThingsEnjoying

Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.

Robert Reich

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In reality, most of America's poor work hard, often in two or more jobs.

Robert Reich

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When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

Jeff Vandermeer

PlantsWorldThinkYouLookDumb

General McChrystal wanted to be on the cover of 'Rolling Stone.'

Michael Hastings

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I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.

Sue Grafton

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Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way.

Robert Fitzgerald

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I'd love to do another film version of 'Romeo & Juliet.' I'm not too picky as long as it's a good story.

Rutina Wesley

LoveGoodStoryLongFilmPicky

A lot of the time, the scripts you get to read are remakes or reboots or sequels or prequels.

Jared Harris

TimeYouGetReadSequelsScripts

The ultimate storyteller is Shakespeare, who was able to get the 'groundlings' to laugh at his bawdy humor and storylines but could still be studied by scholars to this day for the complexity of his language, meter, and symbolism. That's the real guy.

Jon Favreau

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I always embrace the worst-case scenario.

Conor Oberst

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