Alan J. Heeger Quotes
The scaling theory of localization demonstrated that the disorder-induced M-I transition was a true phase transition with a well defined critical point.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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Just because you have a disagreement with your friends or family members does not mean there are not plenty of other areas on which you see eye to eye. It just means you have a difference of opinion.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
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Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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It turns out that popularity is scary. I don't feel comfortable receiving so much attention from people; perhaps that's because I'm just a kampong boy.
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My dad's one true quest in life was for the Platonic ideal of peanut butter. And I remember one day he announced, with a look of utter transfiguration on his face, that he had found paradise on Earth in a jar with a yellow cap. And it was called Red Wing.
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I honestly believe that this is one of the greatest secrets to true peace of mind -- a decent sense of values. We could annihilate 50 percent of all our worries at once if we would develop a sort of private gold standard -- a gold standard of what things are worth to us in terms of our lives.
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The scaling theory of localization demonstrated that the disorder-induced M-I transition was a true phase transition with a well defined critical point.
