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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.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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Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices
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Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
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Peter Kaplan was a partner, a mentor, and a friend.
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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.
