"Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ... Though to the layman, the world revealed by the chemist may seem more commonplace, it is not so to him. Each new insight into how the atoms in their interactions express themselves in structure and transformations, not only of inanimate matter, but particularly also of living matter, provides a thrill."

-- Henry Taube

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“When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.”
“Legends are not born - they are created.”
“Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but you know there are thorns beneath, and every now and then you feel them too; and perhaps resent the injury by crushing them in till you have destroyed their power, though somewhat to the detriment of your own fingers.”
“If my hair gets any frizzier, I'll shave it to the scalp. Or light it on fire. Whichever is easier.”

Source : Victoria Scott (2014). “Fire & Flood”, p.6, Scholastic Inc.
“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.”
“It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.”
“If my father was alive today, he would have fought for Kurdish rights”

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