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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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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Most managers are just trying to survive. That's why a lot of smarter guys have been let go from Fortune 500 companies: because they came up with new ideas that no one would allow them to try.
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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
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We told each other everything, even the little things, and were happy.
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What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.
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I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.
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The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government.
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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.
