Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Quotes
What do we mean by soft matter? Americans prefer to call it 'complex fluids.' This is a rather ugly name, which tends to discourage the young students.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.
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When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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My sister and I had resolved never to become teachers because the job seemed to demand so much. My mother always seemed to be working. Our dining room table was cluttered with papers waiting to be read and graded.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.
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There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.
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I don't believe actors who say they don't bleed into their characters. It's absolutely impossible not to.
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I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
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I don't really know what 'a dark place' means. I have windows in my house, and I'm generally an upbeat person! A lot of people throw that word at me because I wear a lot of black and leather.
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I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.
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Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.
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In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died – an entire town destroyed.
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And that’s why we support societies that empower women - because no country will reach its potential unless it draws on the talents of our wives and our mothers, and our sisters and our daughters.
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To meet the shortage of supplies from America, due to lack of shipping, the representatives of the different supply departments were constantly in search of available material and supplies in Europe.
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History
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The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks.
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I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.
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I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. But when you catch me while I'm looking real sideways and the picture's ugly as hell, I don't want you to have the picture like that!
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What do we mean by soft matter? Americans prefer to call it 'complex fluids.' This is a rather ugly name, which tends to discourage the young students.
