Elias James Corey Quotes
By 1954, as an assistant professor with a group of three graduate students, I was able to initiate more complex experimental projects, dealing with the structure, stereochemistry and synthesis of natural products. As a result of the success of this research, I was appointed in 1956, at age twenty-seven, as professor of chemistry.
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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All the time he's boxing, he's thinking. All the time he was thinking, I was hitting him.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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I have vitamins I intend to take to be a better person. I even have a pillbox for them to remind myself to be healthier. But will I take them? Definitely not.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president.
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I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.
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You know what happens in all the big companies and business in the world. If something doesn't work, you have to find a solution.
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For film and TV, try to have a more conversational tone. For stage, you'll need better diction and bigger vocal production.
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By 1954, as an assistant professor with a group of three graduate students, I was able to initiate more complex experimental projects, dealing with the structure, stereochemistry and synthesis of natural products. As a result of the success of this research, I was appointed in 1956, at age twenty-seven, as professor of chemistry.
