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"I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory."
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"It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore."
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"I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again."
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"I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned."
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"I do a couple of hundred press-ups a day but I haven't been to a gym in years."
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"If the executioner goes, my package will never be made public. If he doesn't go, it will be made public exactly fifty years from the day the bill for a moratorium on capital punishment is defeated."
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"I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore."
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"I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids."
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"You can have a bad day, but as soon as you set foot on that stage it's joyous."
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"It was a show where you were given a quote out of current events and you had to identify who said it. I was reading eight newspapers a day and had compiled a file of about 300 quotes. I really had to do my research. The White House press didn't have to bone up on any of it."
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"I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way."
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"There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth."
Truth

"After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it."
Science

"I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory."
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"I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy."
Family

"All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child."
Life

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."
Life

"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."
Progress

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
People

"I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries."
Evil

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
Life
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