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The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.
The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.
As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.
I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating.
Yes, I was the one people credit with inventing the cell phone. Now, whenever anyone gets a dropped call, they blame me.
Madam Walker, as part of the first generation out of slavery, really was inventing the way that she operated in the world.
I'm working on inventing an aerosol spray that repels papparazi. I haven't perfected it but when I do I will make millions.
The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.
The younger generation of hip-hop artists believes in doing something irreverent, inventing a new style. That's all it's about.
You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.
The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.
The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
As a student, I had a hobby of inventing new ideas for products. For me, thinking of new businesses is like inventing new products.
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.
The Left not only needs a victim class, it has proven adept at inventing new victim classes as a means of exacerbating social conflict.
I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.
Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.
I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
People never knew we were poor, but out of that poverty came the most incredible inventions - board games, recipes... we never stopped inventing.
Curtailing voting rights by dishonestly inventing widespread fraud has been a major part of the Republican Party's political strategy for a while.
You try a lot of things and you don't know what the hell you're doing. If you're actually inventing something you shouldn't know what you're doing.
For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.
Each side tries to legitimize their aims by appealing to history, sometimes selectively choosing episodes and other times just by inventing history.
One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.
I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.
You have to stick to your plan. Throwing everything overboard and inventing something on the spot does not make sense. You will never get that from me.
Sure, best seller. I'd love to knock Stephen King off the top of the list. I know I won't, but, after all, I spend my life inventing a different reality.
I'd been taking things apart and inventing things since I was a little kid… I still have memories as a child trying to really understand how things work.
People say they are inventing electric cars. Well, where is the electricity coming from? Flowers? Maybe someday. But what is available now is oil and gas.
In the 1970s, I did a Ph.D. with Fred Sanger in Cambridge who was in the process of inventing ways to map what's inside DNA. He later won the Nobel Prize.
I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.
I took my son to an exhibition about inventing things, and he was so inspired he started collecting toilet rolls and empty bottles for his own 'inventions.'
In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.
If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful - looking at a space and creating magic.
I never had the time or luxury to think about inventing my own colour theory. When colour came, I was interested in expressing things that happened around me in time.
Action sports is just in a new era: thinking outside the box, being creative, and inventing new things. I just think people dig that. It's a new way of being an athlete.
I'm one of those people that's listened to so much music, I feel like I've soaked it all and not rejected anything, so it's all present there when I'm in my inventing room.
I've never been a great enthusiast about how I look and I am very... when I was young I had a real anti-talent for inventing myself as unappealing - craven and unremarkable.
Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.
It will be very hard to convince everyone in the world to handle their plastics responsibly, but what we humans are very good in, is inventing technical solutions to our problems.
With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same sense it's also very exciting.
I love inventing interesting people and then pushing them to their absolute limits - and usually those absolute limits involve homicidal faeries, werewolves, or some other paranormal menace.
I always created things, layered things on top of each other. That hasn't changed at all. With this first album, it was basically a celebration of that process of inventing and building sounds.
So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.
At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to give a sense that Cal, in writing his story, is perhaps inventing his past as much as recalling it.
Try as I might, Agatha Christie is unique. The actual writing style can't be exactly the same, so instead of trying to replicate it exactly, the way I got around it was by inventing a new narrator.
Inventing is something that has always come very natural to me. As a child, I was always fiddling with things, making contraptions. I'd see something, go home, and try to make something even better.
The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.
The gender disparity in STEM is depriving our country of talented minds that could be inventing the next breakthrough technology, founding the next big startup or keeping our nation safe from cyberattacks.