Franka Potente Quotes

Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most fundamental beliefs. It has the potential to threaten the sacred family bonds at the very core of our ideals and our society. At its worst, it could lead to misguided and malevolent attempts to select certain traits, even to create certain kind of children -- to make our children objects rather than cherished individuals.

Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.

Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.

If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.

Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.

There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

Imitation is a caricature. Any imitation. Find out for yourself.

Mr. Trump is Mr. Trump. I'm Mr. Wilders. I'm not anybody's copy or whatsoever.

Duplication never works for anybody.

Tampering with humanity is pretty scary.

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.

'V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human.

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.

I am who I am.

We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

I don't want to be somebody else.

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

I is another.

I'm not a clone, and I'm not a minion.

My father's music was influential. My place is my place. I must be myself and who I am.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

I'm not a brand name, I'm a person.

We should place priority on the development of safeguards against unwise, permanent alterations in the human gene pool. Now that we have become principle agents of evolution, it is crucially important to recognize that the pursuit of short-term goals through human modification can be dangerously inconsistent with the long-term best interests of the human species.