Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Quotes
The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.
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Peacemaking and democratic state-building require blood and magic.
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I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.
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Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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You see thousands of films you forget the minute you come out of the cinema, don't you? Because they don't mean anything. It's the tough ones like 'Breaking the Waves' and 'Nil By Mouth' that stay with you, that you never forget. I'd like to leave a few of those behind if possible.
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A lot of new writers assume you have to know the where the story is going and that it flows out as molten gold. But really, sometimes you think you are going to one place, but then you decide that is dumb idea. Then you go somewhere else and it is a worse idea. But then you switch again and you might have a beautiful accident.
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As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.
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When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
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Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I'd be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there's energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It's a living thing, and you just follow it.
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Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.
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I didn't get excited by weight loss, and since I was already happy being fat, I couldn't see the point of it all. I'm 6 ft. and weigh about 18 st. or 19 st., but weighing myself is not something I do with much pleasure.
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All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.
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We often get so busy "sawing" (producing results) that we forget to "sharpen our saw" (maintain or increase our capacity to produce results in the future).
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
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It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity.
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The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.
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The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.
