Mildred Dresselhaus Quotes
I've been lucky. I've been at a place that's a meritocracy. It doesn't really matter that much what your gender is if you do the work well.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.
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As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.
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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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I never wanted to be a movie star.
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.
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I have known Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla for a long time. He is a good man. He is a decent man.
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I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
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I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.
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Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society... But for me, education means making creators... You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists.
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I'm a chocolate guy.
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In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff. I'm somebody who does better just hearing it. I'll just imitate it, and I get it better that way. When I know too much information, I'm not great.
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I once pitched this show that was just like 'Quantum Leap,' in terms of the set-up, and I got a pass because they said 'Quantum Leap' didn't work, even though it was on for six or seven seasons. You can't say 'Quantum Leap' didn't work!
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The corporate world has the resources to improve the world. It's where people live and work.
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I've been lucky. I've been at a place that's a meritocracy. It doesn't really matter that much what your gender is if you do the work well.
