George M. Whitesides Quotes
Capitalism is a wonderful economic engine, but it assigns little value to long-term projects or societal problems.
George M. Whitesides
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
Rabindranath Maharaj
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
Laura Linney
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
J. B. Priestley
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
D. A. Pennebaker
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
Rachel Zoe
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I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.
Karan Singh Grover
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
Raghav Bahl
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I have a very short attention span.
Frances McDormand
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
Ramon Rodriguez
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
Tariq Ramadan
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When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.
Naeem Khan
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
Felicity Kendal
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The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
Jose Saramago
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That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I love baking cakes and slices and biscuits, but I will only make them if I'm going somewhere with lots of people so I can share them around. I've got a sweet tooth, and I'm not good with discipline, so it's easier if I just don't have desserts in the house.
Rebecca Breeds
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If a person hides the truth or says something fake on variety shows or interviews, it will still be found out no matter how careful they are.
Lee Seung-hyun
Big Bang
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Capitalism is a wonderful economic engine, but it assigns little value to long-term projects or societal problems.
George M. Whitesides
