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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The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories.
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Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job, or a slum mother battling to give her kids a chance for a better life. But white is beautiful, too, when it helps change society to make our system work for black people also. White is ugly when it oppresses blacks-and so is black ugly when black people exploit other blacks. No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.
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I began studying ribosomes as a postdoctoral fellow in Peter Moore's laboratory in 1978.
