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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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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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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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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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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I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.
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The world was not supportive. They look at me as a joke for 13 to 14 years until I could prove feasibility; then I had competitors. Those that laughed at me became my competitors.
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I'm a smoky eye girl. I love playing with eye colors, metallics... fun stuff!
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I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.
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To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.
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Trying to breast-feed gave me such a creepy feeling. It made me feel sick.
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The Russians have been waging wars with these separatists since the 19th century, but for obvious reasons, Chechen separatist terrorism tends to be carried out by Chechens.
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There isn't anything that pays you as much money as acting while you are deciding what the hell you're going to do with yourself.
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For such a time as this I was placed upon the earth. To hear the voice of God and do His will, whatever it is.
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Let the people be led by the revelations of Jesus Christ, and the finger of God will be made manifest before them day by day in their progress to eternal happiness; for this is the privilege of the faithful.
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In my experience, if people don't have a sense of humor, they are usually not very good scientists, either.
