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"I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants."
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"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."
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"You see, I was the son of a baptist minister."
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"I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it."
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"I try to get them working. My older son is 10 and he's pretty interested. We had a dinner party the other night and he helped a lot. He helped peel asparagus; he hung out. It was great."
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"I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich."
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"'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing."
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"My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion."
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"It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them."
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"Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet."
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"The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play."
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"I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants."
Son
"It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments."
Work
"About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power."
Power
"The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old."
Importance
"For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity."
Family
"Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government."
Government
"We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages."
Hope
"My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
Technology
"We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy."
Work
"Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics."
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