Ada Yonath Quotes
My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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I had good skills, but my lack of size and speed kept me a little behind the best kids in the other sports. Golf offered a more level field. I would have rather played other sports, but golf picked me.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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If a role has been too one-dimensional, I have turned it down.
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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Daft Punk's 'One More Time' remains one of my favorite 'getting ready to go out tonight' songs.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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These were all the women whom Bluebeard had married, and whose throats he had cut one after the other.
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New York is an ugly city, a dirty city... But there is one thing about it. Once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
