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When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a couple of days, which is fun.
Navid Negahban
Kid
Those
Days
Couple
Least
Were
Get
So Many Different Things
Different
Wanted
Which
Fun
Many
Different Things
Actor
Things
Chance
I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
Navid Negahban
Speak
Bit
Rusty
Since
Understand
German
Turkish
Used
I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.
Navid Negahban
Country
Back
Joined
Toured
Iran
Left
Germany
Theater
While
Turkey
Then
Company
Lived
As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
Navid Negahban
Work
Sometimes
Wait
Submit
Sit
Our
Projects
Out
See
Part
Know
Handed
Offer
Expect
Send
Managers
Us
Agents
Really
Who
Actor
I like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.' I like that era. I like that fantasy world.
Navid Negahban
Game
World
Bad
Like
Era
Breaking
Breaking Bad
Fantasy
Fantasy World
Game Of Thrones
I grew up on Harold Lloyd, Charles Chaplin, and Buster Keaton, and those were the ones who inspired me.
Navid Negahban
Me
Harold
Chaplin
Those
Charles
Inspired
Were
Up
Grew
Who
Keaton
Buster
The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
Pardis Sabeti
Great
About
Never
Outsider
Puzzle
Like
Piece
Great Thing
Felt
America
Just
Different
Thing
My father took one of the toughest jobs in the government because he cared about his nation more than himself. His courage and conviction have always driven me to want to make a difference.
Pardis Sabeti
Government
Me
Courage
Father
Nation
Conviction
Took
Jobs
About
More
Toughest
Driven
He
Make
Make A Difference
Himself
Because
Always
His
Than
Difference
Want
Cared
See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.
Pardis Sabeti
Together
Fight
Humanity
Thrive
Build
Unlike
Virus
Ourselves
Distraction
See
Threats
Division
Like
Mistrust
Same
Where
Fueled
Barriers
Amongst
Actually
Let us not let the world be defined by the destruction wrought by one virus, but illuminated by billions of hearts and minds working in unity.
Pardis Sabeti
World
Destruction
Unity
Minds
Virus
Defined
Wrought
Hearts
Us
Working
Billions
Illuminated
Let Us
It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
Pardis Sabeti
Time
Creative
People
Creative Process
Politicians
Difficult
Back
See
Having
Directors
Writers
Performers
Like
Most
Scientists
Getting
Just
Want
Process
Producers
Who
Fun
Actor
Right
The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
Pardis Sabeti
Creative
Slow
Kind
Windy
Road
Scientific
Trajectory
Process
There is - I will just say that there was a disastrous day where I discovered really what radioactivity is and that just because you don't see it doesn't mean that it's not everywhere, so - Yeah. I was a slow learner for sure.
Pardis Sabeti
Day
You
Will
Slow
Everywhere
Say
See
Disastrous
Learner
Sure
Because
Yeah
Discovered
Just
Where
Just Because
Mean
Really
So much of the physical world has been explored. But the deluge of data I get to investigate really lets me chart new territory. Genetic data from people living today forms an archaeological record of what happened to their ancestors 10,000 years ago.
Pardis Sabeti
Today
Me
People
World
Living
Ancestors
Has-Been
Archaeological
Physical
Record
Data
Chart
Physical World
Investigate
Deluge
Genetic
New
Territory
Been
Years
Years Ago
Get
New Territory
Happened
Forms
Much
Really
Explored
Lets
Most of my work may happen at a computer, but it's still a new and very exciting frontier.
Pardis Sabeti
Work
Computer
Exciting
New
Most
Still
Very
May
Frontier
Happen
When I was working on my Ph.D., I developed a computer algorithm to look for rapid changes in populations' DNA. Our DNA changes constantly over generations, but if certain changes spread through a population more quickly than others, they are probably the beneficial results of natural selection. This is the protection we give ourselves to survive.
Pardis Sabeti
Natural
Protection
Changes
Others
Algorithm
Beneficial
Our
Ourselves
Rapid
Constantly
Give
More
Results
Through
Computer
Selection
Developed
Generations
Over
Look
Spread
Quickly
Survive
Than
To Survive
Certain
Natural Selection
Working
Population
There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up - the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.
Pardis Sabeti
Me
Science
World
Think
Out
Rigor
Impact
Give
Something
Could
Take
Around
Discoveries
Up
Anyone
Us
Aspects
Teaching
Many
Ever
My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
Pardis Sabeti
Work
Music
Change
Power
Changing
Minded
Minds
About
Something
More
Practically
Scientific
Effect
Much
Soft
Generally, I'm not writing about genomes or anything like that. But people underestimate the creativity you use in science and the rigor you need in music. They basically have the same path.
Pardis Sabeti
Music
You
Science
Creativity
People
Writing
Path
Rigor
About
Generally
Like
Underestimate
Same
Anything
Use
Basically
Need
I think I first encountered Ebola from the movie 'Outbreak.' Then there was the book 'The Hot Zone.' It's the type of thing you either read and say, 'Oh wow, that's terrifying,' or you read it and say, 'Oh wow, I want to do that.' I read it and said, 'Oh wow, I want do that.'
Pardis Sabeti
You
Book
First
Think
Type
Say
Outbreak
Wow
Hot
Read
Terrifying
Said
Encountered
Oh
Want
Movie
Either
Then
Thing
Zone
At 9, I think I had really gotten into tennis. I liked writing short stories; I loved solving math problems. I was learning a little piano, and I was collecting Garbage Pail Kids cards.
Pardis Sabeti
Learning
Writing
Problems
Garbage
Think
Kids
Collecting
Solving
Piano
Tennis
Had
Liked
Gotten
Math
Short
Stories
Loved
Short Stories
Little
Really
Pail
Cards
I have a B.S. in Biology from MIT, an M.Sc. in Human Biology and a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Oxford University, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. I never intended for so many degrees, but I enjoyed getting them all.
Pardis Sabeti
School
Biology
Harvard
Degrees
Never
MIT
Anthropology
Intended
Getting
Human
Oxford
Them
Many
Medical
Enjoyed
Medical School
Biological
University
I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.
Pardis Sabeti
Me
Woman
Smart
Those
Would
Only
Inspires
Support
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
She
Because
Am
Hear
Heard
Clinton
Experienced
Again
Notion
Reason
Now
Her
Things
There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified.
Reza Aslan
First
Roman Empire
Criminal
Punishment
Would
Would-Be
Case
Only
Fact
Crucified
Crucifixion
Empire
Understand
Often
Roman
In Fact
Form
Rome
Capital
Then
Capital Punishment
Reason
Actually
Treason
I wouldn't call myself a Christian because I do not believe that Jesus is God, nor do I believe that he ever thought that he was God, or that he ever said that he was God.
Reza Aslan
God
Myself
Thought
Believe
Christian
He
Call
Because
Said
Nor
Ever
Jesus
'Zeal' is essentially a compromising devotion to God, a commitment to cleansing the Holy Land of all foreign and pagan presences and to re-establish the kingdom of David as God had intended.
Reza Aslan
God
Commitment
Kingdom
Compromising
David
Had
Cleansing
Devotion
Foreign
Intended
Essentially
Land
Holy
Pagan
Holy Land
Zeal
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