Dimitar Sasselov Quotes
The question we ask is - if there is life on other planets, should we expect it to be based on the same molecules, i.e. be universal - or should we expect it to depend on the local conditions, i.e. on the planet's geochemistry. So to find out, we try experiments on biomolecules, starting with such geochemistry conditions.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.
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We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
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Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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New experiences give you new perspectives on life.
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Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.
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All my life, people have made fun of the way I speak. I guess because a lot of my vocabulary is made up of things that other people say. I started making fun of them and imitating them and now that's how I speak.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too.
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I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.
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The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
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The moment that changed me for ever was when I had my first seminar with my history professor at the University of Sussex. I realised that history would answer all the questions I had spent my life asking. It was an extraordinary moment.
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Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.
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No goal, regardless of how small can be achieved without adequate training.
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I do believe in happy-ever-after.
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Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off.
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The question we ask is - if there is life on other planets, should we expect it to be based on the same molecules, i.e. be universal - or should we expect it to depend on the local conditions, i.e. on the planet's geochemistry. So to find out, we try experiments on biomolecules, starting with such geochemistry conditions.
