Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quotes
I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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In randori we learn employ the principle of maximum efficiency even when we could easily overpower an opponent.
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When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
