Leo Baekeland Quotes
How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.
Leo Baekeland
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
Tammy Blanchard
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
E. L. Doctorow
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
Taylor Hicks
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
Youssou N'Dour
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
Randy Pausch
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
Jacob Epstein
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Nobody knows whether we were catalysts or invented something, or just the froth riding on a wave of its own. We were all three, I suppose.
Allen Ginsberg
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You move me, you move me.with your buildings and your eyesAutumn woods and Winter skies.You move me, you move me.Open sea and city lights, busy streets and dizzy heights.You call me, you call me. - The Analog Kid (1982)
Neil Peart
Rush
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Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.
Jacques Rivette
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I can't do most things, if I'm honest, but cooking I definitely can't do.
Len Goodman
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I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.
Dwayne Johnson
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Since your company is the product that makes all of your other products, it should be the best product of all. When you begin to think of your company this way, you evaluate it differently. You ask different questions about it. You look at improving it constantly, rather than just accepting what it's become.
Jason Fried
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Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.
Lorrie Moore
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The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.
Rex Stout
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Because I've been around forever and ever, like wallpaper, people ask me for secrets... it's the same with my skin care range; that's out of necessity. As soon as I saw the first signs, I bought everything in the market.
Lulu Kennedy-Cairns
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I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns. It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything.
Chuck Klosterman
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How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.
Leo Baekeland
