"People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work."

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Source : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Interview, library.cshl.edu. June 17, 2005.

Aaron Klug

#People Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Nobel Quotes

“I'm not here to change the music world, but I'm definitely here to show what I can do and express myself through my music.”

Source : "Lee DeWyze says there's still 'a lot to prove' on his new album" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. June 2, 2010.
“The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage.”
“But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important.”
“When my sons arrived in the family, their legal status was not ambiguous at all. They were our kids. But their wants and affections were still atrophied by a year in the orphanage. They didn't know that flies on their faces were bad. They didn't know that a strange man feeding them their first scary gulps of solid food wasn't a torturer. Life in the cribs alone must have seemed to them like freedom. That's what I was missing about the biblical doctrine of adoption. Sure it's glorious in the long run. But it sure seems like hell in the short run.”
“I grew up with tarot cards and the reading of tea leaves.”
“Success is feeling good about the work you do throughout the long, unheralded journey that may or may not wind up at the launch pad. You can't view training solely as a stepping stone to something loftier. It's got to be an end in itself.”
“When you know what's important, it's a lot easier to ignore what's not.”
“I am a graphic artist heart and soul, though I find the term artist rather embarrassing.”

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