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"An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937."
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"My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel."

"I'll never forget my father's response when I told him I wanted to be a lawyer. He said, 'If you do this, no man will ever want you.'"

"President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all."

"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."

"I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership."

"My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea."
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"My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests."

"The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe."

"The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts."

"I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play."

"The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult."

"Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors."
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