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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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 used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.
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My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.
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After being on the court for six hours, being on TV is very glamorous and fun for me. But tennis is always going to be my priority. It's not going to be this thing when all of a sudden TV will get in the way of that.
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I do not like this place Saint-Jean-de-Luz, a small fishing-village on the Spanish border. I find it arid and dried up. The sea here is ugly. It is either all blue - I hate it like that - or dark and dull.
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Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital.
