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

• You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Change

• 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

• I'm lucky to have been blessed with a great family and a wonderful Christian wife.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Great
  • Family
  • Wife

• There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Company
  • Everyone
  • Equity

• 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

• Audition is the worst thing. It's like cleaning furniture in a department store.

  

  Udo Kier
  • Cleaning

• Is everything funny? For me, yes. There's a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there's something in there that'll make you laugh.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Positive

• I'm all in favor of people - myself included - going into the same territory if there's something that can be done with it. But if somebody says, 'Make a sequel to 'Heathers',' I feel like, no, someone should make a good movie that's a dark, satirical comedy that has that sensibility.

  

  Michael Lehmann
  • People
  • Good
  • Dark

• 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