- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was only fifteen when I finished my high-school studies, always having held first rank in my class. The fatigue of growth and study compelled me to take almost a year's rest in the country. I then returned to my father in Warsaw, hoping to teach in the free schools.
- Depress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he caught the habit of speaking to me of his dream of an existence consecrated entirely to scientific research, and he asked me to share that life.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one of them was very long, for he had the habit of concise expression, but all were written in a spirit of sincerity and with an evident anxiety to make the one he desired as a companion know him as he was.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1903, I finished my doctor's thesis and obtained the degree. At the end of the same year, the Nobel prize was awarded jointly to Becquerel, my husband and me for the discovery of radioactivity and new radioactive elements.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up by parents who embraced the 1960s and taught me that being faithful isn't the be-all and end-all.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Monogamy is not something that's important to me. I don't think it defines love.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never get asked out by men my own age, as they all want to go out with 20-year-olds, and the men that do ask me out are too young.
- Obstacles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been so focused on what to discard, on attacking the unwanted obstacles around me, that I had forgotten to cherish the things that I loved, the things I wanted to keep.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will only purchase what fits me. If I want to lose weight, I do that first and then go shopping.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020