Ahmed Zewail Quotes
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
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This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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I have a fleet of Rimowa Topas aluminum suitcases! They're all covered in stickers from around the world.
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I got hooked to American news like a great TV season. It plays like fiction. I would come home from work, and I would put it on, and I would stay up until 2 in the morning watching it and get up in the morning and watch it.
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Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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There is no formula for winning any show. One just has to be at ease and mentally stable.
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Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital.
