Dan Shechtman Quotes
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I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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Broccoli gets such a bad rap. This is perplexing to those of us who love that green, treelike, stalky vegetable.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you're too old to play dumb.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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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 some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
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If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.
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The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
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Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.
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Some are born to move the world, to live their fantasiesBut most of us just dream about the things we'd like to beSadder still to watch it die, then never to have known itFor you, the blind who once could seeThe bell tolls for thee... - Losing It (1982)
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The beautiful thing about stand-up is you can create and immediately deliver, perform, and get paid for what you do.
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I spend a lot of time in my bed. It's a good comfy one with a tartan bedspread. It's the only place I can read without straining my neck, and I take an afternoon nap, which is my reward for making enough money from my writing now not to have to work. I never get up in the morning before 11.30.
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Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
