For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.

The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'

Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.

But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad.

Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.

Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way.

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease.

I just want to make music that glorifies the Lord and continue to see revival happen all over the world and to see people meet Jesus. That's it.

I like to approach every day like it's my first, so this morning when I woke up I covered my body with red gelatin.

I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.

Anger doesn't win games.

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes events?

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

I really had spent my whole life playing soccer, and the fact that I was willing to give that up for theater, that told me I was moving in that direction.

I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.