Klaus von Klitzing Quotes
I am certain that our Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart will increasingly be an international meeting place open to scientists of all countries.
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
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I just think there are enough hours in the day. If you just focus and dedicate yourself and approach each task as it presents itself, you can accomplish a lot.
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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If you are explaining, you are losing.
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The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable.
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The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
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We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.
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It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
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I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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I would love to play a crazy Russian spy, run with a gun. That's something I would love to do.
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If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist.
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'Selvandhan' is my first dubbed venture, which will release simultaneously with the original. It is a family drama. It has familiar Tamil faces, and I hope it does well.
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I miss improv. I hate it in a way - watching it, doing it - but only because it's so challenging and nerve wracking. Improv is the only belief system I've ever experienced that directly works on how to be. Just how to be.
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Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal.
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I have a hard time finding high boots that go up to your knee, because of the shape of my calves.
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A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.
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Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.
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I guess I would say: above anything else, stay true to yourself. Whether that means for you that you like to have blue hair, or you don’t like to drink, or you are attracted to the same sex, or you want to remove yourself from Facebook, or you’ve got 3 different kids from 3 different dads but you know you’re a really good mom, or you cry for a week because your turtle died. Whatever your truth is, stay true to yourself. But be a good person while you’re at it.
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'The Bank Job,' for me, was a great opportunity for me to do some good acting, you know?
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Jazz has been the voice of freedom for so many countries over the past half century.
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I am certain that our Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart will increasingly be an international meeting place open to scientists of all countries.
