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Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quotes

At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: german
Birth: October 20, 1942

Topics

Time School High School Biology High

When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It's not that I had this great idea. Actually, in my case, it was a great idea.

Good Children Great Book Chance You

Excess body fat alters the levels of the hormones insulin, leptin, and estrogen, and these factors are believed to be responsible for the acceleration of pubertal timing by obesity.

Fat Body Timing Responsible Obesity

I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.

Friend Balance Parent Philosophy

I love kale. Genuinely. I really am glad that I have a platform to express that. I think a good raw kale salad is always just a meaty mouth feel. I also really like kelp noodle pasta with a little kale on top.

Love Good Think Feel Mouth Salad

I have the highest respect for Obama. I have worked with 10 American presidents, both Republicans and Democrats. As far as Israeli security is concerned, he has done the most that an American president can do.

Respect American Security Done Far

As children, we did not have toys. We invented characters and animals; we invented stories.

Children Animals Toys Stories Did

Let's leverage the power of the Web - don't get rid of it, but make the Web beautiful again. We need to give the content room to breathe and give magazine-style advertisements the opportunity to flourish.

Opportunity Power Beautiful Need Web

I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis.

Life Nature Spiritual Me Believe

I'm starting the Juicy J Scholarship Foundation. I'm going to start doing a lot of different things trying to help out and give back.

Start Foundation Doing Help Trying

The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.

Myself Me Writing Process Place Put

My background is all comedy. I've been doing improv since I was 17. It's funny, because when I meet people, I'm known as this guy who will punch you in the face or throw you out a window, when I also have a background in comedy.

Funny People Window Face Comedy You

Growing up, I was your classic Catholic Irish kid. I went to mass every Sunday. Then in secondary school I went to boarding school, and there was mass seven days a week before breakfast - it may have put me off!

School Breakfast Me Growing Up Week

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