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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'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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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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I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
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Obviously, in theatre, you work chronologically, so you kind of know where your emotions are supposed to be, and you're always on top of things, and as an actor, you always know what's coming next.
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Being in the studio, it's more of a controlled environment, where you can be Salvador Dali and sit back and look at the painting. And you can go, 'Ah, you know what? Maybe a little bit more red over here...maybe add some blue over here.' You can sit back and look at the painting.
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A lot of people don't give their audiences credit. You can leave it a little mysterious. They can think about it.
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The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.
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People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
