Rita Levi-Montalcini Quotes
The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.
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Most of my instruments are handmade.
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When I did a high-profile project, I was not the developer of it.
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I would like the thrill of making a new project every time.
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When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.
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What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.
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Every film I do, I'm involved with from the very conception of the project.
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This project, 'Electronica,' is about working with people who are a strong source of inspiration to me.
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Over the years, many executives have said to me with pride: 'Boy, I worked so hard last year that I didn't take any vacation.' I always feel like responding, "You dummy. You mean to tell me you can take responsibility for an eighty-million-dollar project and you can't plan two weeks out of the year to have some fun?
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The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after.
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My fun is working on a project and solving the problems.
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These people vary from some of our senior managers who are helping getting the project office set up to construction workers.
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I have tried to improve telescopes and practiced continually to see with them. These instruments have play'd me so many tricks that I have at last found them out in many of their humours.
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In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there is no rule or 'law'. It is we alone who have devised cause, sequence, for-each-other, relativity, constraint, number, law, freedom, motive, and purpose; and when we project and mix this symbol world into things as if it existed 'in itself', we act once more as we have always acted- mythologically.
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Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.
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A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.
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The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.
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I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them.
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The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.
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The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.
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Technology has not advanced because people are starved for instruments to make a better civilization, but because they are starved for entertainment – technology is still mostly a toy factory for grown-ups.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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We won't be like Jesus if it's more important to us to be like each other. God doesn't compare what he creates.
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Poster art was always my way of being involved in the conversation. So it wasn't just a one-way conversation with the police yelling at us or freaking us out. Street posters allowed you to have the last word.
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The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.
