Ahmed Zewail Quotes
There is no 'master plan' on the road to the Nobel Prize. It represents a lot of hard work, a passion for that work and... being in the right place at the right time. For me, that place was Caltech.
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I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.
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Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.
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I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.
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Sarcasm is like cheap wine - it leaves a terrible aftertaste.
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I think there's a short-term legislative strategy. I think there's a longer-term legislative strategy in terms of enshrining net neutrality principles into law rather than a rule, and I think there's an election strategy.
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Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.
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You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
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There is no 'master plan' on the road to the Nobel Prize. It represents a lot of hard work, a passion for that work and... being in the right place at the right time. For me, that place was Caltech.
