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've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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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'm just kind of fascinated by how we can deny that we are animals and what our impact on the other animals is like, and how quixotic we can be in trying to assess what we've done in trying to correct it.
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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 realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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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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And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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My interest in Virtual Reality (VR) films began for me when I began a fellowship with MIT's Open Documentary Lab. It was a profound experience to be on MIT's campus one day a week and to enter a new world of storytelling where breaking convention and traditional methods were expected. This was deeply challenging and inspiring.
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I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson in his mug shot. But as I think Keith Richards is pretty great-looking, I'm embracing that part of me.
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After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.
