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George Rathmann
Founding Chairman, Amgen
George Rathmann: There was no patent that was in my name. The work was all done under my supervision, and that was a way of identification. It's been my feeling all along that when work is done by the person, the person that puts the thing on the fabric, or the person that makes the observation, the person that carries out the experiment and makes it work, is the one that should always -- I don't believe in the fact that the supervisor should be on every paper. Now in the academic world, you have to do this, because the professor has to build his reputation so he can have the prestige that the university wants for some of their key people. But I like the system much better where you don't put your -- I was on a few patents, and I fought that every time. I thought that that was almost always inappropriate. There was always somebody I thought did a more vital part of the work.
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Lloyd Richards
Tony Award-Winning Director
Lloyd Richards: I don't work for the critics. The critics are something that happens to the work. If I try to guess what the critics might like I know my producers do that all the time. I've been a producer, and I am a producer, but I do the things I like. I do the things that really affect me. I do the things that mean something to me, where something of me is being articulated through the work. I say what I have to say. Now that may be accepted, it may not be accepted. I say it the best I can, and if they don't accept it, okay.
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Lloyd Richards
Tony Award-Winning Director
Lloyd Richards: The arts are a reflection of our society, of its concerns, of its aspirations, of its possibilities. In every respect, it is also a challenge to our society. Those are its roles, and sometimes those roles become crusty. It was Ed Steinmetz who said a good writer is as a second government in his own country which is why the government generally supports mediocrity rather than real talent. What is he saying? He is saying that the role of the arts is to challenge, is to question. It is not simply to pat on the back and support and wave. There are many, many responsibilities that it has, one of which is to question our society as it exists, and lead it to the possibility of making other choices. Sometimes, it isn't to say that every artist is correct in his projection, but at least the challenge is there. Answer it again. There are times when you step on a toe, and if that toe is as influential as a few toes were, then you may have a bumpy time. But that does not change the role of the arts. And any true artist will not be changed by it.
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Sally Ride
First American Woman in Space
I decided that it was worth my time to try to have some impact on that, and try to, first, help change the culture and make the culture realize that the girls are out there, that if we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys, and that we needed to be able to give girls in middle school, high school and college the same opportunities that we give to boys. So I have put in a lot of time creating programs for girls, particularly in middle school, to just keep them engaged and introduce them to role models, show them that whether they want to be a rocket scientist or a geochemist or a microbiologist, that there are women who are now actively involved in those careers and who love what they do. I think it's slowly but surely having an impact.
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