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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I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.
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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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To me, film is the most complete method of storytelling.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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Ever since the first power looms put weavers out of work in the late 18th century, technology has increased productivity but threatened jobs for humans.
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Blast Sputnik for closing terrestrial nature in a man-made environment that transfers the evolutionary process from biology to technology. (p. 85)
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For me, I try not to set any goals or try and see what's gonna happen, because I don't wanna be let down or disappointed that something didn't happen the way I thought it was gonna happen.
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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.
