Ada Yonath Quotes
I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way - I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now - how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized.
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No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.
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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.
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People will say, 'Just one picture please.' That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say 'No' I feel guilty.
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.
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I always said I wanted an Olympic medal. It's the pinnacle of any athlete's career.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.
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If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
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I look a lot like my father and his mother.
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Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
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If you live my life for one day, you'll find it extremely hectic and boring.
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Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
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Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of grief, like old skin cells to drop off us.
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I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way - I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now - how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized.
