Harry Kroto Quotes
If doing something with second-rate effort satisfies you, find something else to do - where only your best effort will satisfy you personally.
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I am flirtatious by nature, but I have never hurt anyone.
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It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
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It's every boy's dream to play a superhero.
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Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
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My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
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It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China?
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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I honestly don't diet or work out regularly. I'm just always running around - you'll never catch me having a day on the sofa.
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I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.
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I'm gonna pick up the pieces,and build a Lego house.When things go wrong we can knock it down.
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
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When I was in the hospital, I was very suicidal in a kind of blind way, I was starving to death and just 'cause I didn't want to turn out like my family showed me, you know, that's all I ever saw of people, was my own family. I wasn't allowed to associate with anyone. Oh, God. So I didn't want to live.
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'My God, oh my God,' he said. 'Six hundred men.'
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The resurrection is In spirit done in thee, As soon as thou from all Thy sins hast set thee free.
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And me I'm in the bathroomcrying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a manwhen you're scared, just like a little kid.
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It is not necessary to succeed in order to persevere. As long as there is a margin of hope, however narrow, we have no choice but to base all our actions on that margin. America and Russia have one interest in common which may override all their other interests: to be able to live with the bomb without getting into an all-out war that neither of them wants.
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When I look around me, I see mostly women who are alone, left by their husbands after their kids grew up, for a younger woman, which is the most common thing, or suddenly abandoned after getting married and left with young children.
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My style icon is anyone who makes a bloody effort.
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A misanthrope I can understand - a womanthrope never.
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The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.
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If doing something with second-rate effort satisfies you, find something else to do - where only your best effort will satisfy you personally.
