Andre Geim Quotes
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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Prostitution and corruption are two things that mankind has had to live with for so long.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
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Putting on a new pair of glasses or sunglasses is a simple way to completely transform your look - just like a new hairstyle.
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Daehyun is a irreplaceable, talented vocalist. [...] he matured early, he's someone who'd care for those around him by giving everything and trusting completely. [...] daehyun doesn't like to appear weak so this sensitive side of him may only be seen by us but with our support i hope he'll be as strong as his powerful voice.
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I think that everyone has the power to make a change in the world.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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Graphene is dead; long live graphene.
