Rita Levi-Montalcini quote: "I should thank Mussolini for having declared me to be of an inferior race. This led me to the joy of working, not any more, unfortunately, in university institutes but in a bedroom."

It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formid...
RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI

At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and ...
RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI

The four of us enjoyed a most wonderful family atmosphere filled with love and reciprocal devotion. ...
RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI

My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely...
RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI

After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.
RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI

The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.
RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI

If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received...
RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI

Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must...
RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI

The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-...
RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI

I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a...
RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI

My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society...
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[Biographical info on Rita]

Born and raised in a Sephardic Jewish family in which ...
RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI

Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because ...
ZACHARY LEVI

Fans will treat something preciously if they're given the opportunity to do so.
ZACHARY LEVI

I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and...
ZACHARY LEVI

I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I'm a nerd... but I grew up with a Ninte...
ZACHARY LEVI

Entertainment has this way of resetting itself.
ZACHARY LEVI

I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in po...
ZACHARY LEVI

I don't believe in strong-arming people.
ZACHARY LEVI

I'm totally a geek.
ZACHARY LEVI

I think that 'Family Guy' is hysterical. It's edgy and hip - and they can do whatever th...
ZACHARY LEVI

If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. The...
ZACHARY LEVI

I'll watch a Pixar movie over and over and over again. I'll be with friends of mine who have...
ZACHARY LEVI

A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and ...
ZACHARY LEVI

I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
ZACHARY LEVI

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical th...
ZACHARY LEVI

I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'
ZACHARY LEVI

My high school experience was pretty good, but my middle school experience was god awful. It was hor...
ZACHARY LEVI

I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I cou...
ZACHARY LEVI

If I have my way, I want to go start making really interactive television. Stuff where you can sit a...
ZACHARY LEVI

There has been a kind of stereotypical 'gamer dude' that has been representative for the gam...
ZACHARY LEVI

There are a lot of people who consider themselves 'spiritual,' but that can mean a lot of th...
ZACHARY LEVI

I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me.
ZACHARY LEVI

On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a f...
ZACHARY LEVI

Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of ...
ZACHARY LEVI

'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was grea...
ZACHARY LEVI

I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who suppor...
ZACHARY LEVI

Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on ...
ZACHARY LEVI

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common ...
PRIMO LEVI

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.
PETER LEVI

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carv...
PRIMO LEVI

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying h...
PRIMO LEVI

I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more...
PRIMO LEVI

The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is ju...
PRIMO LEVI

After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particular...
PRIMO LEVI

The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute ...
PRIMO LEVI

In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of i...
PRIMO LEVI

The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life ...
PRIMO LEVI

For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to...
PRIMO LEVI

The aims of life are the best defense against death.
PRIMO LEVI

Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.
ELIPHAS LEVI

In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back ...
LEVI STRAUSS

Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that...
PRIMO LEVI

The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive quest...
EDWARD LEVI

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.
ELIPHAS LEVI

Whether you talk to Southern Co. or any company in the industry who's deciding to stay in the genera...
ANDREW LEVI

We are raising our recommendation on Pinnacle West based on the company's core competencies as a reg...
ANDREW LEVI

It will take some time for the merger to be completed.
ANDREW LEVI

Basically, longer term this is a good deal. There will be short-term pressure on both stocks as [the...
ANDREW LEVI

Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth a...
LEVI WOODBURY

If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we f...
LEVI STRAUSS

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process it...
EDWARD LEVI

Laws fixed, certain, and uniform, are said to be the distinguishing traits of civilized from savage ...
LEVI WOODBURY

One voice can enter ten ears, but ten voices cannot enter one ear.
LEONE LEVI

Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or no...
LEONE LEVI

We need to come together even more now since we're in a downfall.
LEVI STUKES

The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from t...
EDWARD LEVI

An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.
LEVI STRAUSS

For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to...
PRIMO LEVI

Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts...
LEVI WOODBURY

Not many people get to play the lead character in a gigantic film and model for Ralph Lauren; it'...
LEVI MILLER

I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man."
PRIMO LEVI

Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few...
PRIMO LEVI

...the sea's only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong. Now, I don't k...
PRIMO LEVI

Our speed and size were definitely big factors in this game, but it really came down to just coming ...
LEVI EMERSON

This looks to be far worse, and far more grotesque, than we imagined.
LEVI BROWDE

...In our days many men have lived in this cruel manner, crushed against the bottom, but each for a ...
PRIMO LEVI

It's a beautiful layout, ... I can't help but enjoy the course. It will challenge you, but will also...
WAYNE LEVI

I hope he stops by. It will definitely help and we need his help. He's done a lot for cycling. He's ...
LEVI LEIPHEIMER

It's tough for guys like George, Horner and me to do anything because everybody watches us. But I to...
LEVI LEIPHEIMER

It's going to be a moving postcard. The Tour de France needs to watch over its shoulder because this...
LEVI LEIPHEIMER

It will be like riding in the Tour de France. We've got hills, time trials, road races and wind. Of ...
LEVI LEIPHEIMER

[Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and p...
PRIMO LEVI

All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin.
PRIMO LEVI

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget tha...
PRIMO LEVI

Yeah, I was surprised. It doesn't upset me. I'm kind of disappointed, but when you let things like t...
LEVI STUKES

Its in you're weakest moments that you get a chance to prove to you're self just how strong you real...
LEVI HALPERIN

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really...
LEVI STRAUSS

You got them, and they were stiff as a board, and you broke them in.
LEVI STRAUSS

For human nature is such that grief and pain - even simultaneously suffered - do not add up as a who...
PRIMO LEVI

Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.
PRIMO LEVI

It's terribly unlucky. One of the best summers and now this.
WAYNE LEVI

I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to thi...
PRIMO LEVI

I don't have any interest in being in Warner Brothers' newest comedy if it's going to su...
LEVI DYLAN

When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these ...
ELIPHAS LEVI

Sớm hay muộn trong cuộc đời mình mỗi người sẽ khám phá ra rằng hạnh phúc ho�...
PRIMO LEVI

It's a tough, demanding layout and the greens are really slick. Some of the amateurs aren't used to ...
WAYNE LEVI

It's really a dream come true. I've been training all winter and dreaming about wearing that yellow ...
LEVI LEIPHEIMER

Most of them are some of Thurber's lesser-known fables, not the really popular ones. It's a very dif...
LEVI KAPLAN

For good or evil, we are a single people: the more we become conscious of this, the less difficult a...
PRIMO LEVI

This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real....
PRIMO LEVI

When I got the phone call that I was told I was Peter Pan, I freaked out, because I was like, 'W...
LEVI MILLER

A genius is a man who can rewrap a new shirt and not have any pins left over.
DINO LEVI

That was a really hard day today. For a long time, we didn't know if our tactic would work. But it d...
LEVI LEIPHEIMER

We had guys like John Jackson and Richmond Webb coach things like professionalism. As far as techniq...
LEVI JONES

When I saw Billy with the ball, I just sprinted to our basket. I was hoping to get a quick basket. I...
LEVI STUKES

We relied more on our inside game. I found myself getting a lot of open 3-point shots that I don't n...
LEVI STUKES

I think we saw how well we can really play when we use our big men as well as our guards.
LEVI STUKES

A lot of people have the kind of shot where people say, 'Wow, how'd that go in?' But everybody shoot...
LEVI STUKES

This is one of the best wins in my career here. We need any win right now just to give these young g...
LEVI STUKES

That felt great. After a great win, you don't look at the injuries. I didn't feel it when they jumpe...
LEVI STUKES

This is a great win, especially coming against a team that came in here 11-0. And for it to be our e...
LEVI STUKES

This was a step back. We didn't expect to have to fight like we did against a team like Howard.
LEVI STUKES

There was never a point where we panicked. But there was a time where we were hanging our heads wond...
LEVI STUKES

The very idea of the law in a constitutional republic involves the requisite that it be a rule, a gu...
LEVI WOODBURY

Le grane, tu lo saprai, non vengono al galoppo, come gli Unni, ma zitte, di soppiatto, come le epide...
PRIMO LEVI

The sky [above Tehran] was like a star-eaten black blanket, and so far as I could read them its cons...
PETER LEVI

I got chills on the starting ramp. When I hit the hill, the crowd was deafening. It felt like I was ...
LEVI LEIPHEIMER

Voi che vivete sicuri
Nelle vostre tiepide case,
Voi che trovate tornando a sera
Il c...
PRIMO LEVI

Un recuerdo evocado demasiado a menudo y expresado en forma de historia tiende a convertirse en un e...
PRIMO LEVI

Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.
PRIMO LEVI

The future has an ancient heart.
CARLO LEVI

We should not be talking about the reusability of masks or other devices until we know whether they ...
JEFFREY LEVI

Half of America's workers have no sick leave.
JEFFREY LEVI

It's a depressing situation. We are way, way behind.
JEFFREY LEVI

We recognize the need for liability protections to get the industry into the game, but we're uncomfo...
JEFFREY LEVI

We are going to need some serious money for us to implement a really good plan for us to be prepared...
JEFFREY LEVI

We need more than just a plan; we need the resources to actually activate it. The real test of the p...
JEFFREY LEVI

This should be read as something of a wake-up call to health departments.
JEFFREY LEVI

It appears that this is the only effective intervention we have once someone has been infected. It's...
JEFFREY LEVI

We need to make sure that in the federal government we have clear leadership.
JEFFREY LEVI

We're way behind. The United States cannot come close to that 25% level. For us, that would be at le...
JEFFREY LEVI

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wro...
EDWARD LEVI

Pat was an awesome guy. He always gave 100 percent in everything he did.
LEVI BREARLEY

It's mainly due to the receivers we have now. Teams are scared of them, and now we can run.
LEVI BROWN

The only way I was going to leave was if they told me I'd be drafted in the first 10 picks. I wasn't...
LEVI BROWN

He watches hours and hours of film. I went to his room the other day, and he's got his laptop and TV...
LEVI BROWN

We can be on the sidelines watching the corners and he can tell you exactly what the corner did wron...
LEVI JONES

When you tell people you're a left tackle, it basically says that you're the most athletic offensive...
LEVI JONES

We really didn't think this was too big of a deal. But, now that we understand what they can use the...
LEVI HARTLINE

The moral statements are very tongue-in-cheek. It takes a childlike, satirical look at the social wo...
LEVI KAPLAN

If I'm riding very strong and I have a chance to win, I have to show them I'm willing to give everyt...
LEVI LEIPHEIMER

After the first two mountain stages people realized Lance was as good as ever.
LEVI LEIPHEIMER

You have to show a little respect (for the opposition). But I guess we started a little early. It wa...
LEVI LEVINE

In the first two games, we went against all the principles that coaches taught us in practice. This ...
LEVI LEVINE

It was just my time to do it and help the team. The Lord was looking down on me tonight. I have neve...
LEVI LEVINE

We were a little sluggish early on and Coach told us to be ready to enter the game in a hurry to giv...
LEVI LEVINE

It relieves a little bit of stress because certain things seem more realistic than they used to be.
LEVI ROWLAND

Gifts make slaves.
LEVI STRAUSS

Don't let my flaws shatter your illusion, but see the depth of my humanity.
M.A. LEVI

If I'm passionate about it, if I can work with it and make it into an adventure worth reading- I wil...
M.A. LEVI

...to experience a life that's impossible to live.
M.A. LEVI

I was in Boots buying contact lens solution, and my mobile went off. It was Jay-Z's partner at R...
RITA ORA

The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience.
RITA ORA

When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.
RITA DOVE

Smell the roses. Smell the coffee. Whatever it is that makes you happy.
RITA MORENO

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
RITA RUDNER

I did six Broadway shows, and I noticed there weren't many female comedians. When I went to a da...
RITA RUDNER

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.
RITA WARFORD

I wore so much rubber when I was at MGM, I bumped into the wall once, and I ricocheted.
RITA MORENO

The wonderful thing about cabaret is, you can do a lot of things you can't do in a concert. You ...
RITA MORENO

I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was ...
RITA COOLIDGE

If I could live in a cabaret, I would. If I could live in 'Moulin Rouge,' I would.
RITA ORA

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
RITA RUDNER

To attract men I wear a perfume called "new car interior.".
RITA RUDNER

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and ...
RITA RUDNER

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
RITA RUDNER

I walked into this industry blond with red lips, and I will leave this industry blond with red lips....
RITA ORA

I'm happy to be part of this organization and I'm looking forward to watching the team grow and get ...
ADAM RITA

It's not going anywhere right now.
ADAM RITA

We're like the Mounties...we got our man. We believe with his versatility, Stokes can bring an added...
ADAM RITA

He knows what has to happen for him to be on our team. Keith Stokes knows that now.
ADAM RITA

There are guys out there and we'll find one.
ADAM RITA

We're interested, but he wants more than we want to pay, that's the bottom line. That's the beauty o...
ADAM RITA

We slapped him on (the list) when he was placed on suspension. But we understand he's going to the N...
ADAM RITA

We had to send him back. His work visa was pending. He was on a temporary visa.
ADAM RITA

I don't think his style has changed that much, but his emphasis has. The emphasis now is on him to b...
ADAM RITA

It was mutual. He understood we're not going to use him unless we're in dire straits. Hopefully, he'...
ADAM RITA

Maybe Elvis was inhibited by inbred religious prohibitions or an Oedipal complex, or maybe he simply...
RITA MORENO

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bo...
RITA RUDNER

Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.
RITA DAVENPORT

I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times th...
RITA MERO

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling t...
RITA RUDNER

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our li...
RITA DOVE

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the re...
RITA RUDNER

It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
RITA RUDNER

My first American experience was in the harbor of New York City when I saw that amazing big, tall la...
RITA MORENO

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unho...
RITA COOLIDGE

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much...
RITA RUDNER

I have too many credit cards. You know what happened? Someone stole one and I didn't notice. I n...
RITA RUDNER

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin ...
RITA RUDNER

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portra...
RITA RUDNER

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bough...
RITA RUDNER

You are always trying to please people before you get to the public whenever you do anything that re...
RITA RUDNER

They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one.
RITA RUDNER

I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the count...
RITA RUDNER

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel b...
RITA RUDNER

There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my pers...
RITA RUDNER

Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before.
RITA RUDNER

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this ...
RITA RUDNER

I should thank Mussolini for having declared me to be of an inferior race. This led me to the joy of working, not any more, unfortunately, in university institutes but in a bedroom.

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I should thank Mussolini for having declared me to be of an inferior race. This led me to the joy of working, not any more, unfortunately, in university institutes but in a bedroom.

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