Dimitar Sasselov Quotes
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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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The production value of YouTube videos is not there.
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My goal isn't to shock.
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It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.
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True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether.
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I would like to be a polyglot.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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'What's the Use' is normally done with all the women onstage with Julie. Sometimes it's staged as a 'lay at my feet, dear children, and let me tell you the ways of life.' We felt like that wasn't really what was going on.
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In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
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People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.
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Let us make an arbitrary decision (by a show of hands if necessary) to define the base of every stratigraphical unit in a selected section. This may be called the "Principle of the Golden Spike." Then stratigraphical nomenclature can be forgotten and we can get on with the real work of stratigraphy, which is correlation and interpretation.
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There is only one thing worse than coming home from the lab to a sink full of dirty dishes, and that is not going to the lab at all!
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In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.
