Rita Levi-Montalcini Quotes
The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.
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Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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I don't like possessions.
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I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.
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I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.
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I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.
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I'm doing what I want to do.
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
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I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.
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I receive many letters from people hoping to research their own houses.
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It's the way tenure works, together with dismissal protections that tenured teachers have, that no other public employee has, which makes it almost impossible to remove a grossly ineffective and incompetent teacher or, in some cases, even an abusive teacher.
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To be sure, ASPM isn't the gene responsible for building big brains - there's no such single gene. But it's critical to the process, and the primate line has almost certainly benefited from distinct changes in ASPM.
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At a certain point you have to make a decision in your life about where will you best serve, and I decided that I would best serve as a producer as opposed to a studio executive. There are many upsides to being the studio executive, but one of the downsides is that you get removed from the actual process of making the movie.
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You have to absolutely commit to whatever your process is and attack that process every single day, of trying to get better, take steps forward, without getting caught up in the immediate results that everybody wants to see. That's probably the biggest challenge.
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The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
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Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.
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The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.
