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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.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 believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.
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The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual respect.
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It's enough for a small betrayal, a distancing, an affirmation of independence to provoke wrath, fear and also hatred from the adult. How many husbands and boyfriends kill the woman they say they love because she has decided to leave. It's in the news every day.
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Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.
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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.
