Harry Kroto Quotes

We live in a world economically, socially, and culturally dependent on science not only functioning well, but being wisely applied.

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• There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Long
  • Strong
  • Grow

• I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Hair

• If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Music
  • Today
  • Moving

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Game
  • Day
  • Baseball

• 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
  • Men
  • Long

• For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Power
  • Learning
  • Myself

• Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Soul
  • English
  • Funk

• Most Americans descend from the very people who built this country with their bare hands.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • People
  • Country
  • Hands

• Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.

  

  Victor Grignard
  • Result
  • Exist
  • Acid

• I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Me

• I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. That opposition hasn't changed.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Proud

• Oil painting and color, said Michelangelo, are for 'women and the lazy.' His sharp-edged Apollonian style is the only way to beat back mother nature.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Mother
  • Nature

• If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Real

• Coming out of 'Spy Kids,' I immediately wanted to do more grown-up roles, and I was turning down a lot of the kind of younger, cheesier roles.

  

  Daryl Sabara
  • Up
  • Kids

• I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Men

• Working on a movie like 'Prince of Persia' was awesome. It was great fun to be an action hero and to jump around, running off walls and fighting and having great quippy lines.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Fun

• If a writer I represent gets a bad or unfair review, I suffer. I'm upset and outraged and do everything I can to try and change that. But I would never do that on behalf of my own book because I wouldn't expect my writers to do that.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • Book
  • Bad

• I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do. The world wasn't so wonderful back then, with segregated rule in the South. But we were never hopeless and we never despaired because we had adults out there struggling with us, being there for us, and buffering us.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • World
  • Inside
  • Pieces

• The Andalucían race is very strong. Another mystery- it has the most jealous people in the world, both men and women!

  

  Celedonio Romero
  • People
  • World
  • Strong

• I find it very frustrating how much passing the buck there is in the criminal justice system when it comes to taking responsibility for outcomes.

  

  James Forman, Jr.
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• We live in a world economically, socially, and culturally dependent on science not only functioning well, but being wisely applied.

  

  Harry Kroto
  • World
  • Science