Walter Kohn Quotes
I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
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The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
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The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.
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The Council of Islamic Affairs is doing a great service to the world by promoting a greater understanding in America of the rich heritage of the Islamic peoples and their hopes and aspirations for the future.
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The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.
