Richard Smalley Quotes
Essentially, every technology you have ever heard of, where electrons move from here to there, has the potential to be revolutionized by the availability of molecular wires made up of carbon. Organic chemists will start building devices. Molecular electronics could become reality.
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My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
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Any club is important. All Latin music movements are born in clubs. There is no better research than going to a club. If your music works, it will bounce up.
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One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.
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How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.
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I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.
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I believe the gun has no power at all.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
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From the IRS standpoint, 15,000 new employees have to be added just to, you know, administer ObamaCare and look at the tax implications.
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I think that overall, the position - on a whole host of issues - should always be toward inclusion and equality.
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If people ridicule you, look them in the eye and say, 'Yeah, I may have failed, but at least I tried,' and get on with it.
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We thought we were going to go up against SNL on Saturday Nights - that would have changed things so much that it's almost impossible to speculate what might have happened.
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Africa is awakening. It's a huge market of almost a billion people with huge resources and a young population. People spend when they're young.
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I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.
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When it comes to the fundamental issues that humanity faces, I think that solutions involve shifting consciousness towards cooperation.
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I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.
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I think the best way to have confidence is not to allow everyone else's insecurities to be your own.
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Times change. Cable news and the Internet alone have transformed the way outreach to the American people can be accomplished.
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I will not feel like I've made it until the day I retire from basketball because there's something that I can always get better at, and there's always somebody better, and that's what drives me.
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I only cast the actors and actresses I fall in love with - truly having an emotion for them, an anticipation and enthusiasm when seeing them - and I believe that my emotional confidence in them blends into chemistry. It's always been like that, and I hope I won't be wrong in the future.
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There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.
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There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly.
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I don't think there's something inherently irreligious about comics.
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Essentially, every technology you have ever heard of, where electrons move from here to there, has the potential to be revolutionized by the availability of molecular wires made up of carbon. Organic chemists will start building devices. Molecular electronics could become reality.
