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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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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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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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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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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I often think what I’m saying is for the people who never had a chance to be heard.
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Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
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I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.
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The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions of the future. But by the time the image reaches the eyes of the viewer, it belongs to the past, taking on the status of something retrieved.
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You have only to begin, Lir. Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We can’t expect the world to be better than we make it.
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I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.
