Dan Shechtman Quotes
The message from the Technion when I was a student was: 'You will be so good that when you graduate, everyone will want to hire you.'
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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At the end of the day, don't forget that you're a person, don't forget you're a mother, don't forget you're a wife, don't forget you're a daughter.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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I would love to do some theater.
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Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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We all have fundamental beliefs of one sort or another, and it is very threatening if somebody is saying they're wrong.
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No one actually knows how popular you are or how people think of you until and unless a few of the people who like your work walk up to you and let you know that you are really good. You can see the honesty in their eyes.
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I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.
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People are often surprised by the fact that I laugh a lot, that I look like Lena Dunham, and that I don't want to make relationship dramas for the rest of my career.
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The message from the Technion when I was a student was: 'You will be so good that when you graduate, everyone will want to hire you.'
