Rita Levi-Montalcini Quotes
After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.
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Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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I seemed to have been born reading.
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I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.
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I like to be against the odds.
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I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than could ever imagine.
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And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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U.S. nuclear weapons that are available for presidential use are targeted against broad ocean areas.
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I don't want a girlfriend because that means I've got a responsibility. I have a responsibility to call you. I have a responsibility not to be with another woman. I have a responsibility to be there on time when you need me.
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I desperately want to see the day today and do the best I can not miss a shred of sunlight. It'll be over before I know it.
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If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
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After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.
