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Rita Levi-Montalcini Quotes

I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a roundabout way... He listened, looking at me with that serious and penetrating gaze of his that caused me such trepidation, and asked whether I knew what I wanted to do.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Father Mother Decision Me Medicine

I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.

Coffee People Me Homeless Singing

And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.

Parents People Intention Say Never

As we now know, cyberspace did not liberate human society from pre-existing socioeconomic hierarchies and power structures.

Power Society Know Now Human Did

Trump crossed the line all the time. Flustered during the debate because he couldn't out-debate Clinton on policy, he just leaned into the mic and dismissed her entirely: 'nasty woman.'

Time Woman Debate Policy Line Nasty

Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or government. When they went missing or sunk, nobody went looking for them. They simply disappeared into the ether.

Government Looking Nobody Pirate

A lot of America is stressed by Mother Nature.

Nature Mother America Mother Nature

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

Work Time You More Necessary Your

I'll always have a relationship with Scotland.

Relationship Always Scotland

Nothing manifests more persuasively the American contradiction than that the author of the Declaration of Independence, a slave owner, wrote an antislavery clause into the document - as if to compel himself to be better than he was - which then had to be edited out so the Southern states, including Thomas Jefferson's own, would sign it.

Independence Better American Nothing

I sat with myself one day and asked, 'Who is in those prestigious literary circles? Do they represent me? Do they appreciate the topics I write about and the style in which I write? Do those gatekeepers let a demographic like mine through the door?' And the answer was no.

Style Myself Day Me Door Appreciate

I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful.

Michael Morpurgo

Book Think You Will Studying About

One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.

Best Day School Me World Giving

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