Nick Bostrom Quotes

Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be passed on to the next generation. Now with technology, as it happens, we might indeed be able to transfer some of our acquired traits on to our selected offspring by genetic engineering.

Nick Bostrom

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TechnologyEngineeringGenerationGym

Hell would freeze over before I would do a reality show. I've been offered everything you could possibly imagine, and it just doesn't interest me. You certainly won't see me dancing on TV.

Meghan McCain

MeRealityHellYouDancingSee

You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?

Robert Plant

LifeQuestionsYouAskWhoValuable

I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else.

Amanda Bynes

TeenPeopleSomeoneClassEveryone

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

Stephen Frears

LearnYouWayOnlyYourStamp

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

Steve Martin

GentlemanWrongDignityApologyHe

The West has become very sophisticated, seeing love as a very complex thing. In Bollywood, it's not complex: it's an arrow straight to the heart.

Simon Beaufoy

LoveHeartSeeingBecomeComplex

The best proof of the high quality of American beef is the continued negative BSE findings supported by the highest surveillance possible. The administration should be working to increase our surveillance of BSE, not scaling it back.

Rosa DeLauro

BestQualityNegativeAmericanBack

Waking from any fever dream, one retains, above all, impressions seared into memory.

Joshua Oppenheimer

MemoryDreamAboveFeverImpressions

We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.

Joseph Lancaster

DailyCommunityOutInventions

I wasn't perfect, although during the '60s, I may have appeared to be. After all, I was partying away there for awhile. From age 17 to 25, I worked only on the outer man, and I did pretty well, but I needed to go back and work on the inside.

Donovan

WorkAgeManPerfectBackGo

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

Dorothy Day

CommunityLegalBattleSegregation

We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you.

Christina Ricci

YourselfWorldYouLivingMindsOut

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