Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Quotes
The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
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I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.
Laila Robins
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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.'
Barry Larkin
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I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
Gale Harold
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
Taylor Sheridan
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With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.
Nancy Grace
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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.
Olivia Colman
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I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.
Irvin Kershner
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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.
Patrick Rothfuss
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As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.
M. J. Rose
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When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
Owen Wister
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My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
Jack Welch
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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.
Patrick deWitt
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When I meet a new person, I don’t see race or religion. I look deeper. We must learn to satisfy our conflicts peacefully and to respect one another.
Muhammad Ali
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Even the pre-schoolers are like, 'I watch you on The Jonas Brothers.' And my own kids. I have been in the greatest movies, even some for kids, and they were never impressed until I did 'Jonas L.A.'
Debi Mazar
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I've always loved listening to music on my own, but there's another side of me that is just fascinated by... like Goa trance, for example - just a rave on a beach in India, you know? Where there's someone that's spinning the music, and it's just this free-flowing, continuous energy.
Kevin Parker
Tame Impala
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Reading is not a project of moral improvement, but by broadening our perspective, it can make us less susceptible to the immediate seductions offered by our environment; and in the best-case scenarios, it can enlarge the scope of humane understanding, and of empathy.
Eva Hoffman
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Freedom is a clear conscience.
Periander
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The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
