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- Nov 07, 2020
Place Quotes
Where you land shapes who you become.
These quotes look at place from more than one angle - the town that never quite feels like "home-home," the city that opens doors for a career, and the place you land after years of searching. Some reflect on where opportunity struck; others just accept a city for what it gave them. Read on for more perspective in our Great Quotes collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.
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I think everything belongs in a certain place, for kids who feel they don't belong anywhere. A museum is an institution like a library where everything has a place, everything belongs.
- Illustration
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.
- Research
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- Nov 07, 2020
The events leading to the discovery of tunnelling supercurrents took place while I was working as a research student at the Royal Society Mond Laboratory, Cambridge, under the supervision of Professor Brian Pippard.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bell Labs was an astonishing place for many decades, though it fell on somewhat hard times during the telecom meltdown some years ago, as its corporate owner had to cope with shrinking markets.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a feeling that music might not be the most interesting place to be in the world of things.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I routinely interview college students, mostly from top schools, and I notice that their brains are like old maps, with lots of blank spaces for the uncharted terrain. It's not that they lack for motivation or IQ. It's that they can't connect the dots when they don't know where the dots are in the first place.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My music library is all over the place. I've got A$AP Rocky; I've got Billy Joel. I've got, like, Celine Dion albums that I just worship. There's all kinds of different stuff.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.
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- Nov 07, 2020