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"The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me."
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"I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide."
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"I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later."
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"Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One."
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"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."
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"I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon."
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"I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years."
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"Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches."
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"We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing."
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"Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured."
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"I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement."
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"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."
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"The prize seemed to change my professional life very little."
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"The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me."
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"My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests."
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"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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"The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe."
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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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"The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands."
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"I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play."
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"I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science."
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