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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American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.
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I just loved the idea of writing for different personalities all the time.
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It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining moment. Until then, America thought she was witnessing nothing more serious than the worst aviation disaster in history; now she had a sense of the fantastic vehemence ranged against her.
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Historically, the Justice Department has been Congress' ally in fighting wrongdoing in government, but under this Justice Department and Eric Holder, rather than being the people's attorney, Eric Holder sees himself as the president's attorney and he'll do anything to defend the president.
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I'm very excited that I can get on a skateboard and skateboard down the street now. That was something I never thought I'd be able to do. I conquered my fears.
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People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
