Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quotes
People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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I'm a big fan of monsters. Number one, they're fun, and two, they're such great ways to access the subconscious fears and beliefs of any group of people.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.
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People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
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Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.
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It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.
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I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter - I just didn't identify as a songwriter at all.
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Do everything yourself.
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On a day when Osama bin Laden again threatened the United States and our allies, it is disturbing to realize that John Kerry neither recognizes nor understands the murderous ideology of our enemies and the threat they pose to our nation.
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People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
