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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The best vocalists I can think of are female.
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In early 1983, Gary Goetzman and I went to see my favorite band, the Talking Heads, at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The show was like seeing a movie just waiting to be filmed.
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I've always thought that as long as I did the right things and had the right intentions, everything would fall into place.
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The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.
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Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.
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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.
