Ahmed Zewail Quotes
We must nurture creative scientists in an environment that encourages interactions and collaborations across different fields, and support research free from weighty bureaucracies.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I get homesick.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving yet not loving. I relate to them, in a way.
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I'm not really a popular fan of the whole Hall of Fame thing. I've had a lot of ups and downs, and I don't feel deserving a lot of times.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
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I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'
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The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.
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We must nurture creative scientists in an environment that encourages interactions and collaborations across different fields, and support research free from weighty bureaucracies.
