Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Quotes
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The only way reliably to gauge the heat of any particular chilli is to cut it in half, so exposing the core and membranes, and to dab the cut surface on your tongue.
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I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been injured.
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The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.
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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
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Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.
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I'm the type of guy who likes to be there 24-7. I'm Mr. Roses.
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I have been firming up and making changes in my roster for 2001. This needs to be done from now and then, to make sure what you are booking is working, and to keep a balance in your roster that works.
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Ah, poder ser tu, sendo eu!Ter a tua alegre inconsciência,E a consciência disso!
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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.
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Here's a sigh to those who love me,And a smile to those who hate:And, whatever sky's above me,Here's a heart for every fate.
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Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
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People are not here to meet your expectations.
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The house is always full, and we're always cooking - outside, inside, for six, eight, a dozen, 20 people.
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There are tons of really good writers out there, but for one reason or another, they just have not had the support that allowed them to build audiences.
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For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes.
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The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.
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They're really competitive at drama in Texas.
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The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
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For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
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In big science, the role of the individual scientist must be carefully preserved. So is the one of original ideas and of contributions.
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But Zarathustra made it clear in which direction the answer lay; it is towards the artist-psychologist, the intuitional thinker. There are very few such men in the world's literature; the great artists are not thinkers, the great thinkers are seldom artists.
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Rule books tell people what to do. Frameworks guide people how to act. Rule books insist on discipline. Frameworks allow for creativity.
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'Soft Matter' Nobel lecture (9 December 1991)
