"My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So thats how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer."

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Source : "Professor Spotlight: Sasselov on Super-Earths". Interview with Brian C. Zhang, www.thecrimson.com. February 10, 2012.

Dimitar Sasselov

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“I'm proud of what I look like. I'm proud that I look like my mom.”
“I suppose the "dilemma" might come up if I see a black athlete from the U.S. squaring off against a white Canadian athlete. Who do I want to identify with? I certainly will not and cannot say that race determines how I see competition. I'm certainly aware of how race plays into the way others see and portray competition some times, but I don't have to invest in it that way myself. Unless it's boxing.”

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“My favorite umpire is a dead one.”
“I am counting on the private sector, because it is crucial to Senegal's future.”

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“I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.”
“We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit.”
“You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.”
“Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.”

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