Richard Smalley Quotes

Carbon has this genius of making a chemically stable, two-dimensional, one-atom-thick membrane in a three-dimensional world. And that, I believe, is going to be very important in the future of chemistry and technology in general.

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• To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Want
  • Negative
  • Recognition

• Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Fashion
  • Unique
  • Leveler

• Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Action
  • Day
  • Fall

• You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.

  

  Jack Black
  • Mind
  • You
  • Little

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• Why I got into music was James Taylor, so to see him be a real down-to-earth guy that's unbelievably talented... then to hear him sing those lyrics of 'What I'm Thankful For,' which is a song Ms. Yearwood and I got to write together, that was definitely a highlight of my recording life.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Real

• I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • True

• I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Mean

• We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Time
  • Care
  • Baby

• Every single movie I go up for I'm just checking the phone to see if the e-mail's come in, to see if I got the part yet, which makes me more anxious.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Me

• Spain and the United States share the same values of democracy, liberty and fundamental freedoms.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Democracy
  • Liberty
  • Values

• I like John McCain. He can always be counted on for a good quote.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Good
  • Like
  • Always

• We print 37 million copies, and we found out about the unfortunate news as we were putting the issue to bed.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • News
  • Bed
  • Million

• I live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Perfect
  • Decision
  • Daughter

• Planned Parenthood 'is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism – everything that the Bible condemns.' (The 700 Club, variously dated as 9 Apr. 1991 or 14 Jan. 1991).

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Kids
  • Bible

• You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No, he said, I don't. I think people are the same from the day God first made one. (p.158)

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • People
  • God

• You go to Brooklyn, everybody's got a beard and plaid shirt. They may be able to tell each other apart, but they all look alike to me.

  

  Don Lemon
  • May

• Some guys, when they play with other elite players, they end up being too unselfish; or guys who are used to having the ball in their hands all the time, now they're not as aggressive or as instinctive because they're thinking too much out there.

  

  J. B. Bickerstaff
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• The Indian youth needs to be empowered, and it can be done through good education and vocational training.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Good
  • Done
  • Education

• I'm always weeping at something or other.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Always
  • Something
  • Other

• Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.

  

  David Crosby The Byrds

• I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi, and I had no experience of how someone from a 'Tier 2' city may view a 'Tier 1' city. You really do emigrate between worlds when you come from those towns.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Success

• Carbon has this genius of making a chemically stable, two-dimensional, one-atom-thick membrane in a three-dimensional world. And that, I believe, is going to be very important in the future of chemistry and technology in general.

  

  Richard Smalley
  • World
  • Believe
  • Chemistry