Jacques Dubochet Quotes

I'll never get a Humanitas Award, but I'll have fun.

I did not know that I can win the Nobel Prize.

I have never won a single award - National or Filmfare - and I just hope they don't give me a Lifetime Achievement Award because I won't accept it.

I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we removed your kidney. You're gonna be fine.' 'Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies.'

The same people who recognize I came out with no medals should recognize I could have won three.

I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

I've never won many awards, I didn't get certificates for swimming or anything.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

A guy once told me that I sound like I'm a little ahead of myself. I can't wait to thank him at the Oscars.

I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.

In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work.

Being named among the best at something is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothing is won.

I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.

Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you'll get promoted.

I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.

Nobel prizes are very special prizes, and it would be great to get one.

I was voted by my high school senior class as most likely to recede.

There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit … Be in the first group; there is less competition there.

Sometimes you can be one of the best, but you don't accept that if you don't get the ring or win the Super Bowl. There's a lot of good teams between the Super Bowl winner and other teams. Once the Super Bowl is over, we lump everyone into the other 31, and that's not fair.

The dream of any scholar has, for me, come true by virtue of this award. The Nobel Prizes are justly famous in the hard sciences, in literature, and for peace.

When I was in high school, I wrote a play that I sent off to a competition that took second place. I got a check for a hundred dollars. I never cashed it, because obviously it was worth way more than a hundred dollars.