Ryoji Noyori Quotes
In 1957, at the age of 18, I entered Kyoto University, which was known to be the most active institution in the research of polymer chemistry.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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Every villain needs her story told.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
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What force is more potent than love?
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We can all get behind feeding the poorest kids in school, right?
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I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.
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It isn't easy being a celebrity cricketer in India.
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My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.
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The one thing I have learned as a CEO is that leadership at various levels is vastly different. When I was leading a function or a business, there were certain demands and requirements to be a leader. As you move up the organization, the requirements for leading that organization don't grow vertically; they grow exponentially.
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However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don’t mean fight with the power of our fists or the power of our swords…I mean the power of our brains and our thoughts and our dreams. And as small and quiet and unimportant as our fighting may look, perhaps we might all work together…and break out of the prisons of our own making. Perhaps we might be able to keep this fierce and beautiful world of ours as free for all of us as it seemed to be on that blue afternoon of my childhood.
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The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.
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Anna Held's birthdate and hometown are a dark mystery, thanks to her own mythmaking.
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In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the Civil War, and in part because of trepidation about marriage, which was then a very confining institution, there was a big population of women - mostly middle-class white women on the East Coast - who didn't marry.
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The only power you have is the word no.
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In 1957, at the age of 18, I entered Kyoto University, which was known to be the most active institution in the research of polymer chemistry.
