Stephanie Kwolek Quotes
All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.
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I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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Underwriting is probably the smallest part of our business.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.
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People underestimate the impact they can have on the process through contact with legislators. By being part of an organized group in an area that you have an interest in, you can multiply the impact of your own ideas.
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My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.
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Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.
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I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.
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I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican.
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If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.
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But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
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I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.
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One man envies the success in life of another, and hates him in secret; nor is he willing to give him good advice when he is consulted, except it be by some wonderful effort of good feeling, and there are, alas, few such men in the world. A real friend, on the other hand, exults in his friend's happiness, rejoices in all his joys, and is ready to afford him the best advice.
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There were lots of little boys having their bar mitzvahs all over the world, and they sent me tapes of some of them that they interviewed, probably six or seven little boys, and there was something about Mendel. I just loved his little face. I loved the energy of Mendel.
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.
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Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.
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We are moving away from the old idea of leadership - leadership has less to do (now) with heroism. We don't look for... unblemished omnipotent heroes, but leaders who are complex, dependent, changeable... We do not need one dominant authority structure telling all our inner voices to shut up.
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All sorts of things can happen when you’re open to new ideas and playing around with things.
