George Andrew Olah Quotes
Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.
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When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.
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There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.
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Not a great deal is known about the factors in childhood that doubtless underlie a person's choice of career - I'm talking now about a career to which one is passionately committed, in contradistinction to a career chosen merely as a means of earning a living.
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When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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Nothing divided people more deeply than how they felt about cats.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.
