Concern Quotes - Page 24

• Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.

  Paul Berg

  Moving, Dna, Profound

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• I do have comfort, because as an actor you don't want that anxiety of wondering if you're going to continue with a certain role or if you're going to be employed the next year. It's nice to be comfortable with that and then you can concern yourself with the stories and nothing else. There's no other agenda than putting out a good product.

  Tim DeKay

  Nice, Years, Anxiety

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• A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Civilization, Healthy, Progress

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.56, Princeton University Press

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• With documentary-film projects, you hope you highlight an area of concern people haven't thought about before. A lot of times, I'm asking myself - 'This seems to be a significant problem. What can be done that hasn't been done?

  Paul Allen

  People, Asking, Done

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• I'm very intrigued by e-books, the topic du jour in the industry today. As a number one bestselling Kindle author, I love the way e-books make an author's backlist accessible to new readers. Of course, price point remains a source of concern. Personally, I don't have any of the answers, but I'm intrigued by the questions.

  Lisa Gardner

  Book, Numbers, Answers

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• When I talk to people, their concern is, how are you going to create jobs? How are you going to help turn this economy around? How are we going to make sure that when my kids get out of high school or college there will be some job there? Those are the concerns that are on their minds.

  Alexi Giannoulias

  Jobs, School, Kids

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• There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.

  Thomas Cech

  Thinking, Environmental, Attention

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". Interview with Holger Breithaupt, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

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• Art and science coincide insofar as both aim to improve the lives of men and women. The latter normally concerns itself with profit, the former with pleasure. In the coming age, art will fashion our entertainment out of new means of productivity in ways that will simultaneously enhance our profit and maximize our pleasure.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Fashion, Art, Mean

  "A Short Organum for the Theatre". Book by Bertolt Brecht, 1949.

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• One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Issues, Ethics

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• For all the concern about bodies and weight, 'Baywatch' has three huge catering trucks on the set at all times. One for entrees, one appetizers and one for junk food.

  Nicole Eggert

  Junk, Three, Weight

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• Nuclear-armed Iran ought to be a major concern. And they're moving forward. We have got to roll that back.

  Steve Scalise

  Moving, Iran, Nuclear

  "Gov. Walker on CPAC, record in Wisconsin; Rep. Scalise talks DHS funding fight". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 1, 2015.

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• People who put themselves on the line and sacrifice their own safety for the greater good and for others, and anyone in any profession whose concern is the welfare for other people instead of the individual, are inspiring and important.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Sacrifice, People, Safety

  "Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Anthony Hopkins Interview THOR". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 3, 2011.

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• You know, sometimes if you work - if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is a delirium that starts kicking in on the fifteenth hour, and that can help. Below the just thirteenth hour is where I have a concern, because everybody's so tired.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Tired, Long, Kicking

  "Zach Galifianakis Talks Working with Will Ferrell, His “Non-Sexual” Character, and Disliking Children on the Set of THE CAMPAIGN". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. July 25, 2012.

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• Myths about the dire effects of genetically modified foods on health and the environment abound, but they have not held up to scientific scrutiny. And, although many concerns have been expressed about the potential for unexpected consequences, the unexpected effects that have been observed so far have been benign.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Unexpected, Environment, Benign

  "Engineering Food for All". www.nytimes.com. August 18, 2011.

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• My main concern is to protect people from detriment.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  People, Protect

  "'Athens Is Not Broke'". Interview with Michael Sauga and Christoph Schult, www.spiegel.de. May 23, 2011.

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• Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Selfish, Party, Thinking

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• I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Children, Parent, Financial

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the most thoughtless statements, parroted ad nauseam ever since rational concern for our environment exploded into an emotional syndrome, calls Man the only animal that soils its own nest. Every animal soils its nest with the products of its metabolism if unable to move away. Space technology gives us for the first time the freedom to leave our nest, at least for certain functions, in order not to soil it.

  Krafft Arnold Ehricke

  Moving, Men, Emotional

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• Any concerns that Romney will adopt McCain's milquetoast campaign model are quickly diminishing.

  David Limbaugh

  Campaigns, Mccain, Models

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• My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.

  Daniel Pipes

  Careers, Two, Political

  "Islam and Islamism in the Modern World". Interview with Tom Bethell, spectator.org. February 8, 2013.

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• Putin and his advisers don't understand the power of public opinion in the West. They believe in conspiracy theories and that someone is orchestrating a malicious campaign against Russia. They don't realize that even conservative politicians have to react when newspapers and artists express their concern on such an issue.

  Alexei Navalny

  Believe, Artist, Issues

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• My door remains always open to all constituents to discuss matters of concern to them.

  Peter Slipper

  Doors, Matter, Remains

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• I watch every day when we hit and take ground balls and the way we go about our business. If I saw any lackadaisical approach, that would concern me.

  Mike Quade

  Watches, Balls, Way

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• In and after 1964 when I began to concern myself with the biological issues, and particularly from 1967 onwards, the extent of the problems over which I felt uneasy increased to such a point that in 1968 I felt a compelling urge to make my views public.

  Andrei Sakharov

  Views, Issues, Problem

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• I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

  Tom Perrotta

  Past, Years, Novelists

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