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I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#ask #back #bored #contract #could

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#decisions #done #had #i #lot

I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#communications #get #global #help #how

If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#implications #jumps #years

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#build #converge #find #good #hard

If you make decisions based upon people's reactions or judgments then you make really boring choices. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#boring #choices #decisions #judgments #make

I have a lot of great distractions outside of acting. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#distractions #great #i #lot #outside

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself. ↗

— Ang Lee

#being honest #big #big issue #commit #honest

Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is. ↗

— Ang Lee

#different #different points #films #genuine #ignore

Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation. ↗

— Ang Lee

#emotions #motivation #purposes #serve #their