Richard Smalley Quotes

My interest in science had many roots. Some came from my mother as she finished her B.A. degree studies in college while I was in my early teens.

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• The only reason I would write a break-up song is because my own problem of allowing myself to relate to people.

  

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• If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

  

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• Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.

  

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• True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.

  

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• I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.

  

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• I began photographing in 1946. Before that, I was a painter and drawer, with my mother and father's support. They were a bit pissed when I went into photography. They thought photographers were guys who took pictures at weddings.

  

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• I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.

  

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• We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.

  

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• I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.

  

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• I'm proud of the fact that I was able to overcome long odds.

  

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• If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.

  

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• Ken Noland would use concentric circles; he'd want to get them in the middle of the painting because it's the easiest way to get them there, and he want them there in the front, on the surface of the canvas. If you're that much involved with the surface of anything, you're bound to find symmetry the most natural means.

  

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• I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

  

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• And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.

  

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• The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.

  

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• The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

  

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• I began to weep with loneliness. What was I, who was I? I felt pretty again, my pimples were gone, the sun and the sea had made me slimmer, and yet the person I liked and whom I wished to be liked by showed no interest in me.

  

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• We have to be confident. If we are not you can't win.

  

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• My interest in science had many roots. Some came from my mother as she finished her B.A. degree studies in college while I was in my early teens.

  

  Richard Smalley
  • Interest
  • Finished
  • Degree