Richard Smalley Quotes
Diamond, for all its great beauty, is not nearly as interesting as the hexagonal plane of graphite. It is not nearly as interesting because we live in a three-dimensional space, and in diamond, each atom is surrounded in all three directions in space by a full coordination.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.
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I love New York. Love it.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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I've always been a big fan of science fiction and of the worlds of the spiritual and the mystic.
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Word of mouth is everything.
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I'm good at professional wrestling, and I always will be good, but what's always been different about me is that I can't completely focus on professional wrestling.
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If I was performing, I had no pain. But you can't stay on stage 24 hours a day.
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I pretty much came out of the womb singing. I think I sang all the time.
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There is nothing natural, inevitable, or necessary about the labyrinth of fear. We can liberate ourselves. There are better ways to live. Someone has to take the initiative to love and trust her fellow living creature and set us all free.
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I'm pretty much a goodie two-shoes.
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I just know that all my fans who are with me and going along for the ride, that's what means the most to me.
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I was a dogged reporter.
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Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense.
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You learn how to take care of people from the women in your life.
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'But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like?' 'Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of fold as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is.'
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Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee you are a business with one employee, you. Nobody owes you a career. You own it, as a sole proprietor.
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Recently, I took my son to see The Haunted Mansion, which was one of the worst things (I hesitate even to call it a movie) that I have ever seen. He thought it was better than Finding Nemo and we had a fruitless argument which I'm sure made him acutely aware of the disadvantages of having a film critic for a dad.
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Journalists told me that a talk show wouldn't work. Some told me I was going to get canceled before my first season was up. Before I did one show, they were, like 'Why do you want to do this? Do you know that 90 percent of talk shows don't get a second season? You're a model. People just see you as a model.'
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We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live.
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I have it on good authority that Yankee men are so lazy they marry pregnant women.
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A pacifist between wars is like a vegetarian between meals.
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Women were naturally pure souls, on so much higher a spiritual plane to begin with than men.
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Diamond, for all its great beauty, is not nearly as interesting as the hexagonal plane of graphite. It is not nearly as interesting because we live in a three-dimensional space, and in diamond, each atom is surrounded in all three directions in space by a full coordination.
