John Pople Quotes

On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.

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• I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Problems
  • Everyone
  • Solve

• I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Up
  • American
  • History

• Curvy is something to be proud of.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Proud
  • Something
  • Curvy

• The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Word
  • Verb

• L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Different
  • Live
  • You

• When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Character
  • Hair

• But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.

  

  Raekwon
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Fans

• A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• Throughout my career, I was never able to relax; I always had to go on the field with another responsibility. I felt like I was playing, not just for my team, but for my race.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Career
  • Team
  • Responsibility

• I don't really believe in evil at all.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Believe
  • Evil
  • Really

• I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Finish

• You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Energy
  • Focus

• Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Support
  • Care
  • Show

• In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Mind
  • Job
  • Fun

• For me, personally, I watch pretty much everything on Netflix, and I watch all the episodes in a row, when I can.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Watch

• I love him (Josh Homme) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much ... unless you're family.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Family
  • Hurt

• You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power

• We have Divine Wisdom in the mortal body.Whatever does harm to the body, ruins the House of the Eternal.

  

  Paracelsus
  • House
  • Wisdom

• I used to game a lot, and I used to game a little too hard.

  

  Jason Day
  • Game

• I don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork.

  

  Ashley Olsen
  • Cool

• I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color.'

  

  Thaddeus Stevens
  • Language
  • Ambition
  • Race

• You decide which characters you want and then do the best you can to bring their humanity to the forefront in the context that you place them in - the crises in which you've placed them.

  

  Bob Shacochis
  • Humanity

• On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.

  

  John Pople