Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quotes
I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
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Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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Beauty is not just physical.
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered.
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When you're wearing a motorcycle helmet, people don't know who you are. So I just wander around and, yeah, it's pretty awesome.
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Patent monopoly creates a lot of problems. It allows the patentee to charge the maximum to consumers. This may not be a problem if the patented product is a luxury item, like parts that go into a smartphone, but can violate basic human rights if it involves things such as life-saving drugs.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.
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I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.
