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.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Child
  • My Life

• I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Going

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Why
  • Hate

• I don't like possessions.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Like
  • Possessions

• I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Want
  • I Can
  • Egypt

• 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.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Play

• I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Love
  • Doubt
  • Working

• 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.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Believe
  • Freedom

• 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.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • School
  • May
  • Father

• Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Together
  • Future
  • Painting

• Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Life
  • Humanity
  • Defeat

• As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Reading
  • Human
  • Survival

• 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.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Good
  • Alone
  • Best

• I'm doing what I want to do.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Want
  • Doing

• The poet is the priest of the invisible.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Poet
  • Invisible
  • Priest

• I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Want
  • My Life

• I receive many letters from people hoping to research their own houses.

  

  Kate Williams
  • People
  • Research
  • Houses

• 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.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Together
  • Way
  • Teacher

• I had a lot of problems in my life. I've been a sickly kid, I had a strange life. They said I could have been blind, handicapped, asthmatic, there were all kind of different problems about me.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Kind

• By the time I was 11, I wanted to be a comedian. So all those years later, I've managed to achieve my dream as a kid, and it wasn't easy. I'm on the [Hollywood] Walk of Fame and I'm one of the 25 most influential Hispanics in America, according to Time Magazine. I think my duty is to go back and tell kids, 'Whatever color you are, wherever you come from, anything and everything is possible.' And I'm living proof.

  

  George Lopez
  • Thinking
  • Dream
  • Fame

• When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • May
  • Process
  • Notes

• We've all grown up not the same, but with very similar morals and values. We know how it is. We know not to talk about anyone's mother and sister.

  

  Shavarsh "Shavo" Odadjian Achozen
  • Mother
  • Talk
  • Morals

• The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.

  

  Rita Levi-Montalcini
  • Process
  • Complex