John Pople Quotes

Sometimes one can improve the theories in the sense of discovering a quicker, more efficient way of doing a given calculation.

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• Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Time
  • Character
  • Movie

• Sometimes the better an actor is, the less he's noticed.

  

  Kate Jackson
  • Sometimes
  • Better
  • Actor

• I'm trying to get my head in the game, think about the questions I wanted to ask, breast milk is flying everywhere - over my notes - and I - how do you 'lean in' at that moment? What is the equivalent of that for Wolf Blitzer or Joe Scarborough?

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Moment

• I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Hate
  • Name
  • Annoying

• We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Country
  • Wish
  • Deep

• I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Afraid
  • Anything
  • On-screen

• I can tell you 100 percent Pastor Jones will not burn the Quran tomorrow. There will be no Quran burning.

  

  K. A. Paul
  • You
  • Tomorrow
  • I Can

• I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.

  

  Karla Souza
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Worried

• I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Happy

• Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.

  

  Patanjali
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Space

• I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Time
  • Real
  • Real estate

• The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Mind
  • Class
  • Then

• I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • End

• Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • America
  • Community
  • Destiny

• Some people can't sing - like honestly - but they're famous anyway, and they might be famous for being an artist, which is completely different from being a singer.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Different
  • Artist

• As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• Phones are a big deal, but tablets are an even bigger deal. So we're doing a lot of design work and experimentation around the tablet experience.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Design

• I think they are grooming me as another Gary Cooper.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Think
  • Me
  • Grooming

• I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • World
  • True
  • Think

• I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.

  

  Christian Marclay
  • Time
  • Art
  • American

• I think sleep's really important. I value it as much as waking up and having a full day.

  

  Jena Malone
  • Up
  • Important
  • Value

• If a Middle Eastern sheikh comes to buy Bayern Munich, he could buy 49 per cent. Fifty-one per cent must stay in Germany with the club. That law came about because of the developments of international football.

  

  Franz Beckenbauer
  • Law
  • Football

• Sometimes one can improve the theories in the sense of discovering a quicker, more efficient way of doing a given calculation.

  

  John Pople