George Andrew Olah Quotes
My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.
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On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.
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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.
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I really miss the Australian lifestyle and being around my friends and family.
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I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.
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As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
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I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
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To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
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In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.
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I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.
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When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
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I said on numerous occasions how I feel about my father. I love him with all my heart.
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Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me- I was a father.'
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Part of the game of investing is to come into your own. You must find some way that perfectly fits your personality because there is some element of a zero sum game in investing. If you buy, somebody else has to sell. And when you sell, somebody has to buy. You can't both be right.
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Most people take who they are, naturally, as a given, and they're interested in the sexual other, but not in being the sexual other. Most men are interested in women - whether sexually or not is not the question - but they don't necessarily want to be a woman.
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Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
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No matter how your world falls apart-and honey, that's what happens: we all build ourselves a world, and then it falls apart-but no matter how that happens, you still have the kind heart you've had since you were a child, and that's all that really counts.
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My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.
