Rita Levi-Montalcini Quotes
The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I am angry when I hear things like Cheney whispering into Bush's ear on the way to Obama's inauguration to ask him to pardon 'Scooter' Libby and not to 'leave a soldier on the battlefield'. What kind of metaphor is that for his petty partisan views, when you have men and women giving the ultimate sacrifice? I have nothing but contempt.
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Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.
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I think women are much stronger than men in society. We take more risks than they do in general.
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As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.
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you just took on five million years of evolution again
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.
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The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.
