Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quotes

Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.

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• I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

  

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• Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.

  

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• I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

  

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• Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

  

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• After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.

  

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• On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.

  

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• Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

  

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• Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.

  

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• Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.

  

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• People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.

  

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• Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.

  

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• It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.

  

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• As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

  

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• I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.

  

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• I have been sustained by cane field, the cane plantation I have.

  

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• I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.

  

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• I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.

  

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• What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.

  

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• Me and Johnny Rotten have been talking about doing a movie of his book, No Irish, No Dogs, No Blacks. We have a script, so hopefully that's going to happen at some point in our careers.

  

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• A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.

  

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• Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

  

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• We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

  

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• Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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