Nina Fedoroff Quotes

In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.

Nina Fedoroff

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I don't think there's any music that you hear on the radio today that would be possible without Jimi Hendrix. Rock, blues-rock, heavy metal, any guitar stuff when you get right down to it - Jimi did it. He's certainly the guy who basically invented the blues-rock genre for guitar players.

Joe Bonamassa

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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Steven Weinberg

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When we look at something that is alien to us, that is beyond our comprehension, what do we see but ourselves?

Trevor Paglen

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The Constitution is designed to inconvenience one person from taking us to war. War is a very solemn and sobering and extraordinary act, and it should not be granted to one person.

Ron Dellums

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Customers don't just want to shop: they want to feel that the brand understands them.

Mickey Drexler

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When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don't just sit around thinking about it or talking about it - they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

Michelle Obama

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This is a global effort we're going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It's more than Osama bin Laden. But he is going to pay, and he will die.

Mitt Romney

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'48 Hrs.' is very tough and funny.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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When I got the script for 'Eclipse,' I thought it was a damn good story.

David Slade

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Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.

Christina Aguilera

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I prefer more spicy food to your Italian to be fair.

Peter Shilton

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No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

Thomas Friedman

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