Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quotes

I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

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• I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.

  

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• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

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• You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.

  

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• Justice is revenge.

  

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• Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.

  

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• After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

  

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• I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.

  

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• President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

  

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• Breaks in trust are infuriating and hurtful, but they don't entitle you to flame out, throw a fit, or stomp around rolling your eyes. Try to keep the steam from coming out of your ears.

  

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• I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out. This USO tour is especially meaningful because of the friends I have met and I am honored to be apart of it.

  

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• The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.

  

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• Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.

  

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• We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

  

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• Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

  

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• I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.

  

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• Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.

  

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• There's this old saying that, if you aren't particularly gifted in natural sciences, if you don't want to become a teacher or pastor or doctor, and don't know what else to do, then you become a lawyer. But I've never regretted it.

  

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• I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

  

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• I like rock music that has melody, but it also makes you wanna get up and dance.

  

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• I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • School
  • High
  • Teacher