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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quotes

I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1952

Topics

Reading American Remember New

I always do a mental audit at the end of the week to make sure I'm balancing time between my career and my personal life.

Jill Wagner

Life Time End Week Career Personal

The September 11th tragedy forced us all to look at the world in a different way, and it reminds us all of the importance of living every moment.

Joanne Woodward

Moment World Look Tragedy Living Us

An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.

John Glenn

Beginning Death Space Think End

There is certainly a growing body of data that correlates investments in women with a country's general prosperity; a recognition that no country can get ahead if half its people are left behind.

Melanne Verveer

Women People Data Recognition Body

I wasn't a rebel. It kind of clicked in my head, like, if I want to do this, I can go out and do it. Some kids, it clicks for them, and it doesn't work out. But thank God for me it did work out. I put in all those hard hours of work, and it has gotten me to where I am.

Robert Griffin III

Work God I Am Me Thank God Rebel

Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.

Michael Chang

Change Down Too Much Sometimes Need

People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.

Tori Spelling

Business Children People Saying Long

As an African American actress, there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.

Monique Coleman

Life Hope Walk People Door Impact

I just want to be Patty McCormack. I want to spend every year aging the way she has.

Janet Varney

Aging Year Want Way She Just

Don't believe anything you read on Wikipedia!

Ari Graynor

Believe You Anything Read Wikipedia

Israel, an embattled democracy, has been fighting terrorism for over 100 years.

Ariel Sharon

Democracy Fighting Terrorism Over

The one thing that shaped my life was when I was 15 or 16: I knew I wanted to be a journalist. And not just a journalist, but a journalist in the Middle East, and to go back to the Arab world and try to understand what it meant to be Lebanese.

Anthony Shadid

Life World My Life Back Meant To Be