Leo Baekeland Quotes
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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Today the financial market is no good, but the money is there.
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It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is and that there are so many things to still be thankful for.
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Art is like a stock with a decent return for people in finance, and they get to feel like they are involved with culture, spend time with artists, as part of their dividend.
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For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
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My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'
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Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.
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Couples counseling gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake and that of your children, however, I recommend it - I almost insist on it - as the first step for anyone unhappy in a relationship.
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I've done hundreds of interviews on guns. I'm against people who use guns. I don't like guns, but I've never yelled at anyone.
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I think comedy is funnier when it's real.
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I'm not in this sport to take punishment.
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When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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Being pleased with what they give you is proper of slaves. Asking for more is proper of children. Conquering more is proper of fools.
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I think that I have never had the confidence to really aggressively get behind myself, and so what I do tends to be - I don't want to say 'sheepish,' but there is a sheepish quality to my ability to toot my own horn. I'm very Midwestern in that way. So I just do what I like to do, and what I think I do well is not very loud, necessarily.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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I also served on many government committees.
