Andre Geim Quotes
In my experience, if people don't have a sense of humor, they are usually not very good scientists, either.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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Our universities also have a lot of foreign students. Are we going to ban them access because in their culture there's a certain type of clothing?
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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The whole point of music is being able to share your story. I've been songwriting for a long time, usually while on the road, as a way to get my feelings out.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I'm a dork!
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!
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There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
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My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. I essentially called my mother, The Lion. She's fierce and she's proud. I'd like to think some of that rubbed off on me.
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The thing is, what most people don't understand is that there are so many of us growing up in Europe who are not free to be ourselves. We're not allowed to be who we are. We are not free to marry or to be in relationships with people that we choose. We can't even pick our own career. This is the norm in the Muslim heartlands of Europe.
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As I grew up I got cynical. I'd see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists who charged five hundred dollars for a 'reading' which was so vague you could twist the meaning any way you wanted.
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When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off.
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A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
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In my experience, if people don't have a sense of humor, they are usually not very good scientists, either.
