Dmitri Mendeleev Quotes
The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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I often felt that I didn't train and race enough team sprint to get it right. You need to know that you've got a place to have that continuity of results. Am I in? Am I out of this one? That's tough.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'
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I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell.
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I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.
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Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
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To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing – they're all just language.
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Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it's discovering the world around us.
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I'm not someone who feels settled.
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America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.
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I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.
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One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
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Alvin had met true evil in his life, but he still persisted in thinking it was awful rare, and the word was bandied about too much by those who didn’t understand what real badness was.
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Your first six months in the Senate, you spend a lot of time wondering how the hell you got here. After that, you look around at your colleagues and wonder how the hell any of them got here.
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I was green. All I knew was to walk my dog and go to church.
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If I went crazy and tried to make pop music, my band wouldn't record it! I love them too much to do that.
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Movies are great, TV is great.
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I find music the the clearest and easiest way in to what a movie will feel like - more so than visual references or other movies or dense dossiers of research material. Every now and then I'll send a piece of music or two to people I'm working with - actors or heads of department - when I think it'll help them get a sense of the kind of movie I'm proposing. Often those pieces will end up in the movie - sometimes they won't.
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The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.
