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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The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!
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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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If the picture speaks to me, if it tells me something about myself, then I want it. Then I have to have it.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.
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The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.
