John Pople Quotes
I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
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The challenge of global warming should stimulate a whole raft of manifestly benign innovations - for conserving energy and generating it by 'clean' means (biofuels, innovative renewables, carbon sequestration, and nuclear fusion).
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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
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The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.
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I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.
