Simon van der Meer Quotes
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.
Simon van der Meer
Quotes to Explore
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
Rand Paul
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
Olivier Megaton
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
Takeru Kobayashi
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
Fabrice Grinda
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
Dale Dauten
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
Sam Brownback
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I see there is a lot of behaviour in men's fashion, which is systematic. It's a lot about all these kind of clothes that can be easily combined with each other, and it's less and less, I think, about making a fashion statement.
Raf Simons
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You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.
Ozwald Boateng
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I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes.
Warren Spector
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I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
Patricia Clarkson
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The true sign of decadence is not the collusion of the university and the state (something that is by no means incompatible with honest barbarity), but the theory and guarantee of academic freedom, when in reality people assume with brutal simplicity that the aim of study is to steer its disciples to a socially conceived individuality.
Walter Benjamin
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When you work on a story like the Weinstein investigation, every other non-critical part of your life disappears. For months and months and months, my life basically consisted of my work and my kids, my work and my kids.
Jodi Kantor