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Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Quotes

Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: indian
Birth: 1951

Topics

Great Culture Language Being Human

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Johann G. Seume

Life People Always Something Should

I've seen other actresses refuse to be ugly. Even if the story line calls for it or the character calls for it, they just can't go there for vanity's sake, and they don't want to be perceived in an ugly way. I was like, 'Nah, I wanna go for this.'

Character Ugly Story Vanity Go Want

Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way violates our boundaries. We challenge the behavior, and the person gets angry and defensive. Then we feel guilty.

Time Challenge Angry Behavior Feel

The day before I work, I don't like to even look at the script and let whatever happens happen on the set. But I do prepare a lot. I'm a big believer in that.

Work Day Look Prepare Whatever Big

Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.

Heart Woman Rest You Never Her

Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.

Love Mother Compassion Foundation

Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.

Home Morning Great Travel Nothing

Being an action star is all I had ever hoped to be. I ultimately knew I would be an action star.

Action Star Being Would Knew Ever

My style is bad white-boy dancing. I can do swing a little bit, but nothing beyond that. My solo dancing is sad. I use my arms, badly.

Sad Style Bad I Can Swing Nothing

We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised.

Influence Understanding Important

I collect words and phrases and cut things out of newspapers and keep scrapbooks and write down ideas in my phone or 10,000 notebooks all around my house. It's not very organised, but I keep collecting, so I did have a lot of material to help me to write songs.

Words Me Ideas Help House Phone

Success: When you make more money than the rest of us, it hurts our feelings.

Success Money Rest You Feelings Us

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