Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Quotes
A dense film of a conventional surfactant is quite impermeable. On the other hand, a dense film of Janus grains always has some interstices between the grains, and allows for chemical exchange between the two sides; 'the skin can breathe'. This may possibly be of some practical interest.

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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares?
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
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The man is king. The man is supreme.
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As I started getting older, I realized, 'I'm so happy!' I didn't expect this! I wasn't happy when I was young.
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When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.
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Certainly it may, under present imperfect conditions, often be a duty not to destroy the outward form of marriage for the sake of the children. But by no means can this duty be preached as universally binding.
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One country ... one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches ... We can then make a joint effort to solve the problems of the whole of humankind.
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A dense film of a conventional surfactant is quite impermeable. On the other hand, a dense film of Janus grains always has some interstices between the grains, and allows for chemical exchange between the two sides; 'the skin can breathe'. This may possibly be of some practical interest.