Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quotes
It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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I'd always been a very competitive boy - I hated coming second.
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Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
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I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood.
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I love Africa in general South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries.
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The Obama administration deserves credit for quickly ending the housing free fall. In particular, Obama empowered the Federal Housing Administration to ensure that households could find mortgages at low interest rates even during the worst phase of the financial panic.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
