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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You're dealing with all these foreign agents, foreign brushes, and different time zones. So, you have to put just as much work into taking that makeup off as you do into putting it on.
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My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
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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 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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Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.
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Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.
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I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.
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Behrens had a great sense of the great form. that was his main interest; and that I certainly understood and learned from him.
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Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools.
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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.
