Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quotes
Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
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Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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Writers are so important.
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Getting hit on by both genders is such a champagne problem.
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The original and brilliant idea of an MBA was the opportunity for students to study the theory and application of business and management principles.
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I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.
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I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.
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Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.
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It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.
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Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
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Today and always, there will be an obligation to pass on to the new generation the tradition of liberal scholarship - scientific or in the humanities - and to bring the understanding of things and human actions to everyone.
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Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.
