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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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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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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In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.
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It's not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That's not a problem at all.
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I'm not to the point where I need to shut myself off from people, unless I feel like I need to, but I don't force myself to deal with people.
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There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
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People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.