Harry Kroto Quotes

I've always felt that the Nobel Prize gives me nothing as far as science is concerned.

Harry Kroto

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• I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

  

  Gail Porter
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• It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • True
  • Amazing
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• We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
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• Sure, men like a challenge - but so do women. And nobody likes to be challenged all the time. I know plenty of long-standing happy couples who slept together right away, spent hours yakking on the phone, split checks down the middle, and lived together for years before the wedding.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Time
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• For a long time, I had been very secretive about a lot of the things I'd been through personally, and a lot of that is purposeful. My fan base, for the large part, is the younger generation. They're like, 'I want to know everything! I want to know it all!'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Reality
  • Reason
  • Picture

• At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • End

• Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Long
  • Grief

• All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Family
  • Soul
  • Humanity

• Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Guilty

• Admitting he never had any religion, he calls a friend his 'god' and the love of other people, God's spirit.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
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  • Friend

• The worst programs are the ones where the programmers doing the original work don't lay a solid foundation, and then they're not involved in the program in the future.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Future

• The fundamental problem is not that there are limits on voicing different opinions here. The problem is that the whole society is dying through lack of responsibility or involvement.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Different
  • Society
  • Responsibility

• We feel much sorrow for you, the elm tree had said. But what kind of sorrow-a real and sincere sorrow, or the superficial and pedantic sorrow of the immortal for a frail and flickering creature that was about to die?

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Real
  • Die
  • Tree

• The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Live
  • Contradictions
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• If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Good

• To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire - that is to give him a real moral strength.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Great
  • Real
  • Soul

• I think that overall, the position - on a whole host of issues - should always be toward inclusion and equality.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Equality

• Business is other people's money.

  

  Vicomte Delaunay
  • People
  • Money
  • Business

• Obviously, in theatre, you work chronologically, so you kind of know where your emotions are supposed to be, and you're always on top of things, and as an actor, you always know what's coming next.

  

  Alfie Allen
  • Work
  • Theatre

• In olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we must now volatilize the fixed—in other words, we have materialized spirit, and we must now spiritualize matter.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Science
  • Words
  • Gold

• Perhaps we could put aside our national, ongoing, post-9/11 Muslim butt-kissing contest and get on with the business at hand: Bombing Syria back to the stone age and then permanently disarming Iran.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Business
  • Age
  • Hand

• I've always felt that the Nobel Prize gives me nothing as far as science is concerned.

  

  Harry Kroto
  • Science
  • Nobel Prize