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Walter Kohn Quotes

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: physicist
Nationality: austrian
Birth: March 9, 1923

Topics

Father War Brother World Fighting

You can easily become boxed in and be only identified with musicals or plays.

You Become Only Musicals Plays

I spent 10 years working on a math Ph.D., and I finally got kind of good at it.

Good Kind Years Got Working Finally

I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,' and I said, 'Well, I wish I was a bit cleaner, like you.'

Me Wish You Said Wood I Wish

Miscellaneous is always the largest category.

Always Category Largest

There's definitely a lot of undiscovered talent in Africa. If I'm one of them and there's a few other guys in the league, that means that there must be some that are hidden.

Talent Africa Hidden Must Means Few

There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.

Age Time America Remember Dark Rock

I'm old enough to remember Richard Nixon. They called it the imperial presidency when he was refusing to spend money that Congress had appropriated.

Money Enough Remember Congress Old

There was a time when watching a cartoon was a nurturing experience. You would watch a Warner Bros. cartoon, and at the end of it you could probably win 'Jeopardy.'

Time Experience Win End You Cartoon

You may be guided by the unending effort of poets and artists, biologists and psychiatrists to describe that irreplaceable and still mysterious emotion so essential to the human condition, but all the search engines in the universe cannot compete with the first kiss.

Effort Kiss Search Universe You

I am too old to die young, and too young to grow up.

I Am Grow Die Young Grow Up Old

I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.

Time Humor Just Because Way Become

Rick Neuheisel was recruiting me, and he told me something, and I'll never forget it: he said you make your money in the red zone. If you're down there, that's already three points, so don't turn the ball over. I kind of took that to heart, and I'm always very careful in the red zone.

Heart Money Red Me Never Forget You

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