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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• North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.

  

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• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

  

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

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
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• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
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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.

  

  Young Buck
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• Justice is revenge.

  

  Saad Hariri
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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.

  

  Kanye West
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

  Samantha Power
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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.

  

  Pamela Meyer
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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.

  

  Karl Malone
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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.

  

  Adam Hicks
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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.

  

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

  

  Gale Sayers
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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.

  

  Samuel Adams
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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.

  

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

  

  Barry Ritholtz
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• What I hope my writing reflects... is a sense of the connections between all human beings... and a different perspective on the true nature of courage. For me, those are things worth exploring and writing about.

  

  Chris Crutcher
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• I had an unusual college experience because I traveled the world while going to school at the same time. Now, to look back, I was very lucky.

  

  Su-chin Pak
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• Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
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• Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • World
  • Music
  • Love

• This is a landmark opportunity for all that live and work in the Yukon. The Territory is now one step closer to realizing the potential that geothermal heat and power has for the economy, the environment, First Peoples, tax-payers and businesses.

  

  Alison Thompson
  • Opportunity
  • Potential
  • Yukon

• 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