Rita Levi-Montalcini Quotes

Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.

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• I've had to learn when not to tweet. Like, you learn how to keep your mouth shut? Learn to keep your tweet shut.

  

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• Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

  

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• I’m not leaving,” Sam said, his eyes fixed on the boy he was holding. “Not until Disney Princess here apologizes, or his head comes off, one of the two.

  

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• You have to be loose enough so that when you listen to what's coming, you can follow it. In that sense I am improvising, but I don't think I'm experimenting. I have a problem with the whole term "experimental music."

  

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• One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

  

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• The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

  

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• I am God. So it’s easy to play him. They say God is in all things. So if God is in me, then I am in God. Therefore, I am God. God does not exist without me.

  

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• When levitation fails, a ladder prevails.

  

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• It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.

  

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• Shall an invention be patented or donated to the public freely? I have known some well-meaning scientific men ... to look askance at the patenting of inventions, as if it were a rather selfish and ungracious act, essentially unworthy. The answer is very simple. Publish an invention freely, and it will almost surely die from lack of interest in its development. It will not be developed and the world will not be benefited. Patent it, and if valuable, it will be taken up and developed into a business.

  

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• First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.

  

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• We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.

  

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• Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.

  

  Rita Levi-Montalcini
  • Developed
  • Adolescent
  • Altogether