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Rita Levi-Montalcini Quotes

After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: italian
Birth: April 22, 1909 - December 30, 2012

Topics

Women Future Hands Look Young Now

The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.

Andrew Sullivan

Good Politics Me Friends Good News

I had two brilliant children and one genius. Elon could figure out things when he was very young and was always advanced for his age. He could hold a conversation about something that was way beyond his years, and he read voraciously.

Age Children Genius Conversation Way

Not all artists have a responsibility to be socially or politically aware, but they do have a responsibility to make great art. They have to find some truth and put that in their music.

Music Truth Great Art Responsibility

It's not okay for me to behave as if I'm cynical about the future. Even if I am.

Future I Am Me Okay Behave Cynical

I grew up in Lincolnshire, trying to get the daughters of farmers and policemen to like me. It didn't go well until I got to college where, suddenly, there were different sorts of humans.

College Me Trying Go Farmers Up

If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

Michael Morpurgo

Great Writing Speak Story Learn You

For conservatives, the issue is that for generations now, they have failed to make the case for their values. They haven't even conveyed conservative values to many of their children. And when they have, the university has often succeeded in undoing them.

Children Values Now Conservative

I've always valued the input of the people I love. So in the past, whenever I'd make a decision - what to wear to an event, whether to pursue a job opportunity - I'd consult those closest to me, like my mother, husband, or manager.

Love Mother Opportunity Decision Job

I love nature like nothing else. Before I moved to Switzerland, my home was a flat in London with a garden. In those snatched moments away from dance, I did typical weekend things like pruning, planting, and weeding. I planted fruit trees and even had a vegetable garden, but I wasn't around enough, so it was a disaster.

Nature Love Home Dance Fruit Trees

Rock stars generally don't last in the Senate, starting with John Kennedy. Too much work, too slow, too little juice. Getting something accomplished takes a remarkable amount of tedious work. Rock stars who become senators either run for something else or retire on the job. They certainly don't make a mark.

Work Stars Job Slow Too Much Run

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

Work Mechanic Catering Academic Even

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.

World Thought Being Only Knows Sees

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