Vladimir Prelog Quotes
The close of my studies with a degree of a Dr. Ing. in 1929 coincided with the great economic crisis, and I was not able to find an academic position. I was therefore very grateful for a position in the newly created laboratory of G.J. Driza in Prague where rare chemicals were produced on small scale.
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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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I basically grew up in the backwoods.
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I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.
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This is a great continent. I went to primary school on this continent, secondary school, university. I've worked on this continent, and I think that it's a great disservice that, for whatever reason, people have usurped an imagery of Africa that is absolutely incorrect.
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Jack Dempsey and I became friends in the very early 1920s.
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What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.
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It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.
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Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.
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I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.
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A person in my position has to restrain himself.
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I did love that scene in the movie "Our Brand Is Crisis" because it's like "The Wizard of Oz." You see the backstage action of politics. You have access to see behind the curtain. You see how it's all one big advertisement.
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.
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The close of my studies with a degree of a Dr. Ing. in 1929 coincided with the great economic crisis, and I was not able to find an academic position. I was therefore very grateful for a position in the newly created laboratory of G.J. Driza in Prague where rare chemicals were produced on small scale.
