Richard Smalley Quotes
After a few years of intensive research, we found a way to use a pulsed laser directed into a nozzle to vaporize any material, allowing for the first time the atoms of any element in the periodic table to be produced cold in a supersonic beam.
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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
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When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.
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I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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I don't believe anyone who says they don't care what people say about them. Of course they bloody well do.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
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There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
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When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.
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Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.
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Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?
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The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.
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I feel like I ask people who have been in the industry for a while a lot of questions.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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I have never come across someone who could inspire more respect than the Greek philosophers.
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After a few years of intensive research, we found a way to use a pulsed laser directed into a nozzle to vaporize any material, allowing for the first time the atoms of any element in the periodic table to be produced cold in a supersonic beam.
