Ada Yonath Quotes
My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.
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But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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My parents weren't religious at all. I remember the first time I heard about Jesus was at school.
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When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.
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If I had the choice of knowing the truth or searching for the truth, I'd take the search.
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He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
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My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study.
