Ada Yonath Quotes
Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
Quotes to Explore
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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I find it easier to strike the ball with my instep across goal. But I've scored in loads of other ways, too.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.
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I can't hold a grudge anyway.
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I love making buckwheat crepes with ham, Parmesan cheese, and a fried egg on top. It's my go-to breakfast.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.
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Sanctification is not a work of nature, but a work of grace. It is a transformation of character effected not by moral influences, but supernaturally by the Holy Spirit.
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Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time.
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The show is called 'MacGyver,' and I've got to be there every day. There are probably a lot of girls out there watching the show that I don't have time to talk to.
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There's something fabulously decadent about staying in a hotel across the street from where you live.
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Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
