Ira Longini quote: "It's technically possible and it is being done in labs, ... The next step would be for drug manufacturers to make that technology workable on a mass level and guarantee the quality of product."

Once pandemic strains are widespread, it doesn't make any sense to impose travel restrictions. You s...
IRA LONGINI

It takes into account the real world.
IRA LONGINI

The school itself plays a big role. It's just a massive mixing ground for respiratory illness.
IRA LONGINI

It's technically possible and it is being done in labs. The next step would be for drug manufacturer...
IRA LONGINI

We have no real capacity to make [a pandemic] vaccine right now.
IRA LONGINI

We're very unprepared. We haven't made influenza a high priority in this country, or anywhere else t...
IRA LONGINI

Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of...
IRA SACHS

As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
IRA SACHS

I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which...
IRA SACHS

I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nat...
IRA SACHS

I've been hiding crucial events in my life since I was 13.
IRA SACHS

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.
IRA SACHS

Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a g...
IRA SACHS

New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
IRA SACHS

As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, t...
IRA SACHS

Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, ...
IRA SACHS

One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly reali...
IRA SACHS

'How to Survive a Plague' is history-telling at its best. It's a film I'll show my t...
IRA SACHS

I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't neces...
IRA SACHS

You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
IRA SACHS

What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.
IRA SACHS

My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joi...
IRA SACHS

Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
IRA SACHS

Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticat...
IRA SACHS

I'm not interested in a film about deceit anymore. I think I was always invested in deceit on so...
IRA SACHS

There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
IRA SACHS

For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
IRA SACHS

You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
IRA SACHS

Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
IRA SACHS

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had ...
IRA LEVIN

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.
IRA LEVIN

I was sick. I guess I was about to crack up thinking about all my good buddies. They were better men...
IRA HAYES

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.
IRA HAYES

The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony ...
IRA GLASSER

I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to ...
IRA GLASS

In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ra...
IRA GLASS

Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what...
IRA GLASS

I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice fo...
IRA GLASS

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you'r...
IRA GLASS

I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.
IRA GLASS

I've read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who's playing has read the poker boo...
IRA GLASS

I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download th...
IRA GLASS

People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely fo...
IRA GLASS

I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about th...
IRA GLASS

Traditional broadcast media seems old-fashioned and vague to me. When I watch television news, I'...
IRA GLASS

I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who ...
IRA GLASS

I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, n...
IRA GLASS

In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
IRA GLASS

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that ge...
IRA GLASS

It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guil...
IRA GLASS

I like excess. And giant M&M's.
IRA GLASS

Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with t...
IRA GLASS

There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to y...
IRA GLASS

In radio, you have two tools. Sound and silence.
IRA GLASS

Love is sweeping the country.
IRA GERSHWIN

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; ...
IRA GERSHWIN

A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
IRA GERSHWIN

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.
IRA GERSHWIN

Life is one long jubilee.
IRA GERSHWIN

A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, ...
IRA GLASS

The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-l...
IRA GLASS

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
IRA HAYES

What usually comes first is the contract.
IRA GERSHWIN

That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: ac...
IRA LEVIN

I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
IRA HAYES

I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly sta...
IRA SACHS

It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fu...
IRA GLASS

You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.
IRA GLASS

It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of ...
IRA GLASS

Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me a...
IRA SACHS

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new ...
IRA GERSHWIN

I remember that in Baltimore, where I grew up, we would drive by the radio station and tower of WBAL...
IRA GLASS

You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would def...
IRA GLASSER

Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporti...
IRA GLASS

I think stories get better the more people try to amuse themselves.
IRA GLASS

I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I...
IRA SACHS

I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are bette...
IRA GLASS

'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, ...
IRA GLASS

Traditional systems are meant more to protect their dollar invested in making sure they deny unautho...
IRA WINKLER

Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. I...
IRA SACHS

I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northw...
IRA GLASS

Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps ...
IRA GLASS

The biggest problem is keeping the cell tower aloft.
IRA BRODSKY

The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it d...
IRA ERWIN

I would say John Hancock is a definite [buyout] candidate.
IRA ZUCKERMAN

There's going to be further consolidation in the insurance industry, and I would say John Hancock is...
IRA ZUCKERMAN

Radio is more powerful the closer we mimic the way we actually speak to each other. That's why H...
IRA GLASS

Great stories happen to those who can tell them
IRA GLASS

Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative wor...
IRA GLASS

We've heard the bad news. Now we have to hear the good news.
IRA ZUCKERMAN

You're one person and I could have a group of loans that will go to that bank.
IRA ZUCKERMAN

I'm not a go-in-for-the-kill kind of interviewer. It's a great thing to me, that kind of int...
IRA GLASS

I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural list...
IRA GLASS

The primary goal with the petition is to make sure the seniors are fully informed for the primaries.
IRA LEEDS

These are not your average hackers. They're highly skilled people who try to find holes in commercia...
IRA WINKLER

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what ...
IRA SACHS

Just as you can be for health care reform without having any animosity toward nurses, you can be in ...
IRA MEHLMAN

Any discussions around that are totally confidential.
IRA LUSTBADER

When the security manager found out, he went through the roof.
IRA WINKLER

When you buy their product, you have to register with it. They make you register with it in order to...
IRA WINKLER

The more functionality you have, the more likelihood there is for a security vulnerability, and Wind...
IRA WINKLER

I used to say there were only ... a few hundred (in the latter category). These are people who like ...
IRA WINKLER

I don't go looking for stories with the idea of wrongness in my head, no. But the fact is, a lot...
IRA GLASS

Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a diffe...
IRA LEVIN

a terrible movie.
IRA GERSHWIN

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new ...
IRA GERSHWIN

I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
IRA GLASS

If you listen to Sam Phillips and [Big Star producer] Jim Dickinson, their use of language is so bea...
IRA SACHS

I happened to be staying with my dad and his present 19-year-old girlfriend. So that was really fasc...
IRA SACHS

it's about what you hide and what you show.
IRA SACHS

I'm basically making the same film over and over again,
IRA SACHS

Time of Your Life .
IRA SACHS

To a hacker, you're just an IP address. You get hit because you let yourself be an easy mark.
IRA WINKLER

With free e-mail, the more accesses there are, the more money they potentially make from advertising...
IRA WINKLER

They're the ones finding the latest hack for the Web, instead of finding the latest hack on the Web,...
IRA WINKLER

One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no m...
IRA GLASS

He mixed the British music hall tradition with an American taste for jazz, sex and money,
IRA GOLDSTEIN

It was a great experience. You're sort of warned against meeting your idols, but I don't take that t...
IRA KAPLAN

This one, from a technical standpoint, isn't dangerous in and of itself. What makes it dangerous is ...
IRA WINKLER

The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony ...
IRA GLASSER

When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
IRA GLASS

One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind my...
IRA GLASS

But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're be...
IRA GLASS

Nearly everyone who is asked where they want to spend their final days says at home, surrounded by p...
IRA BYOCK

[Sites often get hacked simply because they present an opportunity for vandalism and not because the...
IRA WINKLER

I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot ...
IRA GLASS

This does not necessarily reflect synagogue membership. This is what they consider themselves.
IRA SHESKIN

I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
IRA GLASS

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
IRA SACHS

It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature,...
IRA GLASS

You are only partly alive.
IRA LEVIN

[Dr. Ira Black, chairman of the neuroscience department at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in...
IRA BLACK

We are not going to get the critical answers, the answers that are so central to recovery of functio...
IRA BLACK

I think what we're all learning now is that stem cells, regardless of source, are simply far more fl...
IRA BLACK

If you look at the audience, it's so hard to reach right now, it's harder to find them on TV. If you...
IRA BECKER

When Rev. Samuels was talking about the trip , it was like the divine spirit was speaking through he...
IRA APSEL

There wasn't a cricket, a bird, a bug; it was completely dead. But out of this crucible came a famil...
IRA APSEL

I was unhappy that, when Katrina hit, I was only writing checks. That just didn't seem to be enough.
IRA APSEL

If we built this place out of all of these group study rooms, this place would have looked like a ce...
IRA WINSTON

The gold standard of group-study space is Huntsman. So we got students to tell us what they liked ab...
IRA WINSTON

Van Pelt Library and Information Commons. That's our answer to this.
IRA WINSTON

I would say the experience is strong, but it's not so much better than the alternatives other compan...
IRA WEINSTEIN

The goal here is that you guys will have an effect on the final design.
IRA WEINSTEIN

Statistics indicate that, as a result of overwork, modern executives are dropping like flies on the ...
IRA WALLACH

The SEC would have to give them a waiver.
IRA SORKIN

Sometimes juries think the judge is part of the government.
IRA SORKIN

As I understand the law, all the jury has to do is find is that somebody at Andersen engaged in ille...
IRA SORKIN

The longer the jury is out the worse it is for the defense. If the government doesn't have the evide...
IRA SORKIN

We're not yet at that point [for a dynamite charge]. They are still talking and not killing each oth...
IRA SORKIN

I'm not sure this is a linchpin. He will have to point a finger at a much larger control group at An...
IRA SORKIN

Judge Harmon can then give Duncan whatever she likes.
IRA SORKIN

People who are getting up in years die in the winter when the days are short, and in the hours after...
IRA SOLENBERGER

It may come down to who is the best fit for the campus. We're getting positive feedback on all of th...
IRA SIMET

I hope everyone can sense that the actual people are very much what their paper profiles suggested. ...
IRA SIMET

One of the main things they bring is a lot of experience with different approaches to issues in high...
IRA SIMET

People were deceived in a brutal way: playing the AIDS card to elicit support, money, connections. T...
IRA SILVERBERG

People were generous because they thought they were helping an H.I.V.-positive former drug addict, e...
IRA SILVERBERG

The organized Jewish community wants to see Jews marry other Jews. On the other hand, they also want...
IRA SHESKIN

I wouldn't expect the Martin and St. Lucie district would necessarily close on the holidays. But I t...
IRA SHESKIN

There's been a tremendous decline of the Jewish population in the central part of the county, with t...
IRA SHESKIN

When you're looking at a population where 78 percent is age 65 or older, people are dying and you ha...
IRA SHESKIN

At worst Fields Corner deserves a better quality store than midland has proven itself willing to del...
IRA SCHLOSSER

But we need to get something back in there that can serve not only the residents but also attract pe...
IRA SCHLOSSER

We all feel disappointed that Americas' Food Basket didn't work out.
IRA SCHLOSSER

We think that Fields Corner deserves more than the low-quality grocery store that Midland has a repu...
IRA SCHLOSSER

It's a driver's market. They are going to go where they can get the best rate.
IRA ROSENFELD

You have to treat the drivers you do have now with respect, and we have the best compensation packag...
IRA ROSENFELD

Everyone is worried about the driver shortage.
IRA ROSENFELD

While we are running some 7-8 percent ahead of last year both in tonnage and revenue, we feel we cou...
IRA ROSENFELD

We're expecting anything from the Teamsters at any time. No day is a particularly good or bad day. W...
IRA ROSENFELD

It's really not per se the color that matters; it's that they're not part of the money networks. Peo...
IRA ROHTER

Right now, everyone is starting from scratch. To me, there's no obvious front-runner. None of them h...
IRA ROHTER

He's saying it's time for a new face of the Democratic Party. He's not just saying, 'Akaka is old an...
IRA ROHTER

This is an example of how the private funding of elections is out of control. It's standard operatin...
IRA ROHTER

If this could be proven, then it would come under the classic definition of involuntary manslaughter...
IRA ROBBINS

Government should not ignore the criminal aspects of what the tobacco companies were doing. In fact,...
IRA ROBBINS

Everyone in England saw something they'd never seen. It was a totally different world.
IRA ROBBINS

The catalogs of Motown and the Soul '70s and Rock & Roll '60s are disappearing from retail shelves. ...
IRA PITTELMAN

We are using television as a medium to reach the older demographics, the 40-plus market, who still l...
IRA PITTELMAN

A while back, the musicians that built Rock & Roll or started Soul music were uncomfortable with tel...
IRA PITTELMAN

I've got to try to work my way back in. I've been out so long I guess I've been forgotten. I'm hopin...
IRA NEWBLE

Losing Larry is definitely going to hurt us. Everyone needs to step it up.
IRA NEWBLE

We're going to have to find a way to bring the same intensity on the road that we normally bring at ...
IRA NEWBLE

In 1 percent of the cases we find authors have engaged in fraud.
IRA MELLMAN

The only model for studying human cancer is humans.
IRA MELLMAN

It really is very bizarre.
IRA MELLMAN

In some cases we will even contact the author's institution and say, 'You should look into this beca...
IRA MELLMAN

I'm not sure the Catholic population necessarily goes along with everything that comes down from on ...
IRA MEHLMAN

He's going to run into stiff opposition. I suspect that he will also find himself the target of peop...
IRA MEHLMAN

The whole thing is a sham. At the end of nine years all these people are going to thank us and go ho...
IRA MEHLMAN

If the federal government isn't going to do the job and Arizona is footing billions of dollars a yea...
IRA MEHLMAN

Good luck trying to collect these fines. It's a start, but the prospect of prison time would probabl...
IRA MEHLMAN

In some way that (the Gaza evictions) may be inspiring people to go, the only way to hold on the lan...
IRA MEHLMAN

It is a de facto amnesty. It rewards people who broke the law. It puts at a disadvantage kids who di...
IRA MEHLMAN

We think this could be a major, precedent-setting case.
IRA MEHLMAN

That's the reason we have large-scale illegal immigration: because we send a clear message that ther...
IRA MEHLMAN

Most Americans feel it doesn't make any sense for people to come into the country illegally, give bi...
IRA MEHLMAN

It's hard to get young people.
IRA MAYBAUM

That was a major upside for us.
IRA MAYBAUM

This case was being watched to see if Missouri could get away with this. I think this is a landmark ...
IRA LUSTBADER

It's technically possible and it is being done in labs, ... The next step would be for drug manufacturers to make that technology workable on a mass level and guarantee the quality of product.

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It's technically possible and it is being done in labs, ... The next step would be for drug manufacturers to make that technology workable on a mass level and guarantee the quality of product.

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