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"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
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"Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me."
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"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
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"I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!"
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"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star."
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"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."
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"I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. Everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world."
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"Growing up Catholic has been a gift."
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"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."
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"There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify."
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"I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties."
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"My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate)."
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"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
Growing up

"My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set."
Home

"After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began."
Life

"My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill."
Mother

"Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!"
Life

"Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!"
Decision

"About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments."
Research

"My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem."
Life

"After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes."
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