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Andre Geim Quotes

In my experience, if people don't have a sense of humor, they are usually not very good scientists, either.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: physicist
Nationality: dutch
Birth: October 21, 1958

Topics

Good Humor Experience People Sense

I wasn't that academic, but I always made sure I was earning money. I never wanted to put all my eggs in one basket. Even when I started doing music, my parents were like, 'You need to work; you can't just live off music.' I always knew that. So I worked until I knew I was going to be financially okay.

Work Live Music Money Parents Doing

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.

Michael Bloomberg

Money Fight Legacy Believe Better

One of my earliest lessons in guilt was imparted in childhood through the story of the death of Mahatma Gandhi's father.

Father Childhood Death Story Guilt

You know, I left the country when Reagan got in; I went to France.

You Country Know Left Got France

In any business that you pursue, if you belong at the top, and you're perceived as having that caliber, and you do qualify, then it's something that you want to hold on to.

Business You Want Top Pursue Belong

I am open and will continue to be open to ways to limit abortion. What I am not open to is to removing the right.

I Am Abortion Will Right Open Limit

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

Martin Scorsese

Good Friends Doing Go Know Duty

The very rights that we supposedly won for African Americans in the civil rights movement no longer exist for those labeled felons. That's why I say we have not ended racial caste in America; we've merely redesigned it.

Michelle Alexander

America Say Why Movement Racial

Porsche is a driver's car - a performance car. That was funny - here's this awesome car, but it's got no cup holders.

Funny Car Performance Awesome Here

You can have a great character in a really bad script, and the film will never be seen. It's just too much work to commit to a film and not have it released.

Work Character Great You Bad Never

It's always an honour to help the Anfi Group - a hotel timeshare company where my mother worked for many years and which I will always support.

Mother Support Hotel Help Group

I definitely had those moments, like any actor, when you get anxious and think, 'When am I going to work again?' But I would feel that way even when I had every offer in the world coming to me. Then I became a father and I felt a little more of the anxiety that came with the responsibility of being a parent.

Chris O'Donnell

Work Father Responsibility Me World

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