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Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Quotes

I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1952

Topics

Science I Am People Doing Award Why

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

Alone Scenery Will Attract Costumes

I am in a business that's built on record sales and reputation and how your single is doing and where your song is on iTunes. But the kind of music that I do comes from my beliefs.

Steven Curtis Chapman

Business Music I Am Song Reputation

I like what's obscure.

I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.

Day Fantasy One Day Big Get Sing

I mean, I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go.

Hope Style Personality Go Mean

Mastering one recipe is better than mastering too many. Learn something and own it, and you'll feel so much better about it. You'll have more confidence if you've made it five times, and that confidence adds so much fun to cooking.

Confidence Cooking Fun Better Learn

Conservatism is not the problem. Conservatism is the founding of this country, essentially. Conservatism isn't even really an ideology. Conservatism is just what is right, proper, decent, and moral. That's all it is.

Problem Country Moral Right Ideology

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

Louise Slaughter

Power Ethics Process Stand House

There's definitely been a focus on the literary aspects of my music, and I always get a little cringey because I don't feel like I'm particularly literary. There's a sort of academic label that's put on me that seems inaccurate.

Music Focus Me Feel Always Academic

When I was little, I didn't really travel - from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I had a foreigner's eye on the city, and I still enjoy that point of view. Then there's the fact that one of the things that touches me most is injustice.

Journey Travel City Me Eye View

When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.

Live Myself Society America You

My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I've definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad.

Good Beautiful Support Parents Mom

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