Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quotes
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen! I never touch coffee or other caffeinated drinks.
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I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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I'm not so optimistic as to think that you would ever be able to garner a majority of an American Congress that would make those kinds of investments above and beyond the kinds of investments that could be made in a progressive program for lifting up all people.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
