Andre Geim Quotes
Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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I like to do Pilates.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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The challenge of global warming should stimulate a whole raft of manifestly benign innovations - for conserving energy and generating it by 'clean' means (biofuels, innovative renewables, carbon sequestration, and nuclear fusion).
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I don't want to take up a project for the sake of it. I want to work and follow my passion, and not anything else.
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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.
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Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.
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There is a huge market for products and services aimed at what I like to call the Pocketbook Environmentalist: a shopper who's savvy enough to know things don't necessarily have to cost more just because they're good for the environment.
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Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell.
