Raphael Bivas:
CLASS OF 1998
Ohlone Elementary SchoolClass of 1998
Palo alto, CA
Gunn High SchoolClass of 2005
Palo alto, CA
Stanford Middle SchoolClass of 2001
Palo alto, CA
Raphael's Story
Raphael is from Palo Alto, California. Raphael's schools include Ohlone Elementary School, Stanford Middle School, Gunn High School. Raphael later attended Oberlin College (Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience) .
Music Raphael likes includes Gallimaufry, Rosemary Clooney (Official), Michael Feinstein. Books Raphael likes include Twelfth Night, Oliver Sacks, Jane Eyre. Movies Raphael likes include The Sound Of Music, The Apartment, Singin' in the Rain. TV shows Raphael likes include Srugim, Colbert Report, Firefly.
One of Raphael's favorite quotes is:""If music be the food of love, play on!" - William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night, Act I"
"Derive pleasure from life, integrate your work with what you love, and approach life as if there were no limits!" - Marianne Chowning, my high school calculus teacher
"Sometimes in life, you gotta send the truck." Herb Kane, my uncle
"There is a fine line between immortality and death,
The idea being you are as much alive as you take the terminal breath
Then you are at the age of infancy
Or on the verge of insanity." -Patrick Cornelius Albertolle, "Lines Creating Life"
Me: "I'm sorry, I just had two simultaneous reactions."
Craig: "Were they in equilibrium?"
"You don't 'de-liver' somebody unless you're Hannibal Lecter" and "You should be fearless. Don't be afraid of the dissonance" -Hugh Floyd
"Some [dul...Expand for more
cimer] hammers have leather on them and I could be SUEDE to use them." -Matthew Abelson
"How can I tell what I think till I see what I say." -E. M. Forster
"Is someone missing a brain?" and "I feel like I'm Lady Macbeth!" -Gisela Knight, neuroscience lab technician
"It's known as the Hamlet problem: '2B' or not '2B'?" -Tony Starfield
Kolleen: "I guess [Oberlin High School students] don't drink a lot of soda."
Craig: "No, just pop."
Kolleen: *death glare*
"The only thing harder to deal with than adolescence are adolescents." -M. Daniel
"He who laughs last thinks slowest."
"...Then there's Reform kosher, the most popular level, in which pork and shellfish are acceptable only in Chinese restaurants." -Philip Roth
"We haven't done this in 500 years; we're a bit rusty." - Joseph Abdel Wahed on a Karaite conversion
"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence-these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it." -Albert Einstein
"Banishment is a punishment only if you choose it to be." - Baruch Spinoza
"Super-shul has been activated" -Emily G.
"When you watch Roger Federer, you want to go out and play tennis, and when you listen to Oliver [Sacks], you just want to go out and, like, think." -Robert Krulwich".
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