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Theo Jansen Quotes

I liked science very much. A science teacher in high school inspired me, and because of him, I began studying science at the university. But when I got there... well, the subject still attracted me a lot, but I had to do all these exams, and it was just like working in an office. I couldn't stand that.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: dutch
Birth: March 14, 1948

Topics

Science Teacher School Me Stand

Democrats are fighting for a new direction that includes protecting Social Security as well as making healthcare affordable, bringing down the high cost of gasoline, and making higher education more accessible for all Americans.

Education Direction Higher Education

To ask a pratfall comedian, a dishes-in-the-face comic like me, to lay back and bring none of that stuff to the script because it doesn't call for it? That's tough.

Me Tough Back Ask Bring Call

I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry Day,' like a 'No Smoking Day,' is just shelving the problem. Things which should by rights be every day are not best served by these things.

Best Day Poetry Smoking Problem You

I'm trying to tell history with a capital H through histories with a small h. It moves people, because you know in your own personal relationships, your own story, there's an echo to a much larger reality.

History People Small Story Reality

I started to music when I was about 19 years old. Most people that do music, they get training, or they develop themselves before they let their music out. For myself, I was actually developing myself and putting my music out at the same time.

Metta World Peace

Music Time Myself Training People

The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.

Money Control Compromise More Pass

You can't expect to score lots of goals in every game; football isn't like that.

Goals Football Game You Expect Like

I left Kurdistan in April 2003 with the peshmerga, following their excited advance as Saddam's forces crumbled. First Kirkuk, then Mosul - where looters broke into the city museum and seized its Parthian sculptures - then Tikrit. I reported from Baghdad in month-long stints until the end of 2004.

City End Museum April First Excited

The day Trump got elected, I got off social media.

Day Social Media Media Social Off

Because of the high altitude, you get drunk really fast. So everyone's drunk all the time.

Time You Drunk Fast Everyone High

I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom.

Freedom Parents Hotel Lost Rock

An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

Preparation Three Years Pursuit Four

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