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George Wald Quotes

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 18, 1906 - April 12, 1997

Topics

Know Draft Most Thing Peacetime

I don't dream about the perfect script, though I check my mailbox every morning.

Morning Perfect Dream Check Every

I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.

School High School Person Go Class

People expect me to live in a picture-perfect Pottery Barn kind of place, but I don't like anything traditional.

Live People Me Place Kind Anything

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

Woman Become She Right Whatever

While shooting in Uganda in 2011, the conservative evangelical pastors I was filming - the most ardent supporters of the country's now infamous Anti-Homosexuality Bill - discovered that I myself am gay.

Roger Ross Williams

Myself Gay Country Now Conservative

I was on the show previously as a guest host, so I had a little practice.

Rocco DiSpirito

Practice Little Guest Show Host Had

I knew from the second I stepped onstage. I was like, yep, this is what I want to do.

Want Like Knew Second Onstage

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?

Dorothea Benton Frank

Love Writing World Loved You Seeing

Trying to make strangers laugh is crazy and more than a little narcissistic.

Crazy Laugh Trying Strangers More

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

Water Earth Human Cycle Activity

When I go to Atlanta, I'm famous. I can get on a flight, anything. Because they're watching every show, and if you're black, you famous.

Black Famous You I Can Go Flight

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Booker T. Washington

Life Labor Top Begin Bottom Common

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