Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Quotes
An important event in my scientific life has been my appointment as a Professor at the College de France in 1973.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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On the other hand, the American public possesses a great resilience and strength, and good risk communication strategies can tap into and even amplify those assets.
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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I did play other sports growing up. I played cricket and all those other things, but I was just so much more talented in golf, and that's all I wanted to do.
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Going back, I wish I could have been in the moment a little bit more. I can't change it, but hindsight definitely makes me appreciative of the moment now - even if it's hard, or exhausting, it's all a part of the experience.
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Love's a loaded gun and it shoots to kill.
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One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of this tradition of problematic anti-elitism where the elites are always the liberal class - the intellectuals, the professors, the artists - and not the economic elites. Why are we so mad and aggrieved at newspaper editors but not at corporate executives? I think we need to look more at the latter, at economic elites.
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Every breakup is preceded by a bad relationship. So breakups should be cause for celebration and triumph.
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An important event in my scientific life has been my appointment as a Professor at the College de France in 1973.
