Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quotes

I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

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If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.

Joan Rivers

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I've been painting and making things since I was little.

Jemima Kirke

PaintingLittleThingsBeenMaking

I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.

Anjelica Huston

GreatMyselfBetterSeeAnything

With all the people hating and hurting each other, I don't understand how people could get upset about people of the same sex caring for each other.

Michael Franti

CaringPeopleSexUpsetUnderstand

I didn't just want to be a poster boy and sign on to publicize somebody else's method of operations. If I was going to put myself out there, I wanted to make sure that it was to an end. So I got involved with this congressional hearing about Parkinson's being underfunded.

Michael J. Fox

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When you see another tall woman on the street, you nod, sort of like Orthodox Jews.

Judy Gold

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We, Norton I, do hereby decree that the offices of President, Vice President, and Speaker of the House of Representatives are, from and after this date, abolished.

Joshua A. Norton

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I write every night.

Jonathan Davis

NightWriteEveryI Write

I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.

Diane Wakoski

WorkGoodPoetryPeopleReadingWhy

The joy of my career is I've been very blessed to be able to be an actor in major films, television, theater, and also British radio. In fact, my dream as an actor when I started out was to be able to work in all the media. Thankfully, that's what I'm being given to do.

David Suchet

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Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

NatureTodayManAlmostHeFigure

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

Phylicia Rashad

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