Richard Smalley Quotes

It turned out that the buckyball, the soccer ball, was something of a Rosetta stone of an infinite new class of molecules.

Richard Smalley

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• For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Memory

• I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Happy
  • Guy

• I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Happy
  • Song
  • Know

• I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Long
  • Remember
  • I Can

• The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Light

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Day

• We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Special

• I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Watching

• I'm still wearing Target and hand-me-downs.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Hand
  • Still
  • Target

• A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Dream
  • Man
  • Heaven

• I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie. That's the first thing. You want to do it.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Yourself

• God is a verb, not a noun.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • God
  • Verb
  • Noun

• People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin to take you more seriously, as they suddenly feel you have become more important.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • People
  • Important
  • Change

• I enjoy producing because the show becomes your baby.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Baby
  • Enjoy
  • Show

• Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Fall
  • Creating
  • Often

• Even now, when I try and think of band names just randomly, I'm so thankful that 'fun.' is the name of the band. I never really think twice about it. It is so simple and so easy.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Fun
  • Simple
  • Band

• In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Life
  • House
  • Car

• You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Happy
  • Campers

• Self-love means caring for ourselves enough to forgive people in our past so that the wounds can no longer damage us - for our wounds do not hurt the people who hurt us, they hurt only us.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Past
  • Hurt
  • Enough

• Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Book
  • True
  • Future

• CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.

  

  Heather Brooke
  • Technology
  • Symbol
  • CCTV

• What is unusual about the United States - and it's something that I have never gotten used to - is that Jews here, there are so many of them, and they are so important to the culture.

  

  Michael Lynton
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Something

• It turned out that the buckyball, the soccer ball, was something of a Rosetta stone of an infinite new class of molecules.

  

  Richard Smalley
  • Something
  • Soccer
  • Molecules