Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quotes
I began studying ribosomes as a postdoctoral fellow in Peter Moore's laboratory in 1978.

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I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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Don't forget I'm from a military family. I was in special training in the army. I am tall, sporty and - how do you say - you can always protect yourself... I have very strong security.
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There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.
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I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.
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The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
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I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.
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Life is constantly supporting us and giving us gifts. It's a matter of opening ourselves to that.
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Tasmania is famous for its shape, which is the same shape as the pubic hair region on a woman's body, which I personally don't identify with. Mine's more like a map of the former Soviet Union. Not to scale.
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The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don't let people tell you you can't. Go find a way to show that you can.
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I have to be tough in my work environment and tough in the world.
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Humanity has at least a dim, and growing, cognisance of the effects of its presence on this planet. The possibility that we might integrate that awareness into how we interface with the Earth system is one that should give us hope.
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I usually get approached by older white ladies of a certain class, with their pearls and, you know, their Talbots on and everything, and they're like, 'We just have to say, we know we're not your demographic, but we love Paper Boi; we really love this show, and we love what you're doing.' It's totally cool.
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Showing your life so public is a mistake sometimes, but I blame myself as much as anyone else.
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When I started out, at the CBC in Toronto, there was so little work. It was a different world from what it is now. Now we're blessed with so much production in so many Canadian cities.
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Casting is very, very important.
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So-called gay folks would just as soon kill you as look at you.
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Like a researcher in his laboratory, I am the first spectator of the suggestions drawn from the materials. I unleash their expressive possibilities, even if I do not have a very clear idea of what I am going to do. As I go along with my work I formulate my thought, and from this struggle between what I want and the reality of the material - from this tension - is born an equilibrium.
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The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories.
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Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance because it's all a metaphor for the existence of our being.
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Scars show toughness: that you've been through it, and you're still standing.
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I began studying ribosomes as a postdoctoral fellow in Peter Moore's laboratory in 1978.