Sentences with phrase «to achieve immortality»

As he and collaborator Lynn Novick prepare to debut their new 10 - part documentary film series The Vietnam War on September 17 on PBS stations nationwide, we spoke with the tireless documentarian about leadership, productivity, managing gigantic projects and how to achieve immortality through storytelling.

Given the increasing capabilities of storage and bandwidth, people will, in a metaphorical sense, engage in teleportation and time travel, while achieving an immortality of sorts.

While we humans obsess about achieving immortality, other organisms seem to do it effortlessly.

Steve: And the holy grail is once we understand the brain well enough, we could actually upload all the contents of our brain when our bodies start to fail and insert those contents into an artificial body and for all intent and purposes achieve immortality.

How about a kid trying to achieve immortality by setting a world record before he dies?

On the topic of permanence, a traditionally published print book is here today gone tomorrow, yet a self - pubbed ebook can achieve an immortality traditionally published print can never achieve.

Stormcloud has already achieved immortality and recognition beyond the wit of men with their inclusion within the lasciviously accurate and wantonly comprehensive Scottish Games Network Company Directory.

In 1922, the American sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850 - 1931) achieved immortality with another monumental public sculpture - the seated figure of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.

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Yet Greenberg has achieved immortality of a kind.

I do not read your minds (or «hear your prayers» as you like to call it) and you are not going to achieve immortality (or «eternal life» as you like to call it) no matter how many commandments from Iron Age Palestine you choose to «keep».

He has achieved immortality through his sacrifice.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work.

One persistent dream is that of a genetic modification of aging, at the least to take the sting out of it by improving its quality, and more boldly by radically increasing life expectancy, and perhaps even to achieve immortality.

All of this talk of death reminds me of the Woody Allen quote: I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Common to many of them and to Greek thought was a dualism which regarded matter, including flesh, as evil and sought to emancipate the human soul from it and so to achieve immortality.

An estimated 90 percent of all malignant tumors use telomerase to achieve immortality, and various proposed cancer therapies focus on turning down the production of telomerase in tumors.

Anyone wishing to add a name to the cosmic script, to achieve immortality, or at least get a dozen zeros closer to it, must pass through him.

«We're not claiming to achieve immortality,» Harrison says, «but rapamycin is a step toward expanding healthy life span by about 10 years.»

Its closely related cousin, Turritopsis dohrnii, was recently featured in the media as an example of an organism that may achieve immortality.

A little closer to modern times, in 1868 America, Kentucky politician Leonard Jones ran for the U.S. presidency on the platform that he'd achieved immortality through prayer and fasting — and could give his secrets for cheating death to the public.

Just in time, too, as the evil Kaecilius (Mads Mikkelson, earning more gold stars for the casting director) and his followers are closing in on a plan to unleash the Dark Dimension and achieve immortality.

He also steals the life forces of other people in order to achieve immortality.

to produce a youth serum to help them achieve immortality.

Fashioning himself into a supervillain called The Hourglass, he's now bent on draining some 42,000 citizens of Empire City of their in order to achieve immortality.

Thanks to everyone, we might achieve immortality...

Like Manzoni, who was preoccupied with the artist's breath, Bill Viola's Nine Attempts to Achieve Immortality (1996) is a black and white video in which the artist holds his breath for as long as possible, nine consecutive times.

BILL VIOLA Nine Attempts to Achieve Immortality, 1996 Sound and video installation Edition of three and one artist proof