Ada Yonath Quotes
The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was quite independent. I did what I wanted.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?
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Well, I just hope we can have peace, and I hope it'll do some good.
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My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.
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I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.
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Respect a man, he will do it the more.
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LaStampa has always been a free newspaper because of its economical sustainability, and we're proud of it. It's the only way for a newspaper to be independent.
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The royal refugee our breed restoresWith foreign courtiers and with foreign whores,And carefully repeopled us again,Throughout his lazy, long, lascivious reign.
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I would have to investigate more of Bill's dancing abilities, you know, and some of this other stuff before I accurately judge whether he was in fact a brother.
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The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was quite independent. I did what I wanted.
