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Nina Fedoroff Quotes

One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1942

Topics

Control Engineering Through Insects

The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.

Remember Feeling Get I Remember Jobs

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

Meghan O'Rourke

Mother Me Loss Die Nothing Knowing

I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.

Waiting Head Keep Drop Cartoons

The cast of 'Parks & Rec' is just a group of unbelievably nice, humble, down to earth, hilarious friends.

Humble Friends Down Earth Nice Just

I've always loved to incorporate music into acting because I have a passion for both.

Music Passion Loved Acting Always

I just want to do my best to prove myself.

Myself Best Want Prove Just

It's odd, because 'Mad Men' was the first long-form TV thing I ever did. I'd done loads of independent movies, but after that, it was 'TV actor.' You go, 'When did that happen? Everything else has been erased?'

Men You Mad Go Done Movies

The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening.

Douglas Coupland

Writing Start Reading Feel Worth

The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.

Leader King First African-American

Audiences can be leery of sequels; the studios make a hit, they see dollar signs, and they make a cheap rip-off.

Cheap Signs See Dollar Make Hit

I was raised a Democrat, and now I'm an Independent.

Now Independent I Was Raised Democrat

They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences.

Best Be Different Doing You Will

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