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George M. Whitesides Quotes

Capitalism is a wonderful economic engine, but it assigns little value to long-term projects or societal problems.

George M. Whitesides

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 3, 1939

Topics

Value Capitalism Problems Little

For the Yupik, all life was continuous, animal with human with 'spirit', and recognising that continuum allowed them to undergo transformations that we, locked into our own disappointingly Cartesian skins, find impossible even to imagine.

Life Animal Impossible Find Spirit

If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

You Want Just Somebody Songs Ten

Nick's just from this very Norman Rockwell-ish family. They're very 'American Gothic,' and his parents are so kind, and they're not brash people; they're very soft spoken, salt of the earth.

Family Parents People American Earth

When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Funny Me London English Accent

I came to believe that a leader isn't good because they're right; they're good because they're willing to learn and to trust.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Good Leader Trust Believe Learn

I will make the greatest efforts to seek mutually acceptable interaction between Taiwan and mainland China.

Will Interaction Seek China Greatest

The NRO is like a secret twin to NASA. It's the U.S.' 'other' space agency. The agency is about as old as NASA, but its existence was secret until 1992.

Space NASA Old Secret Existence

For me, iPad 2 and tablets in general are really exciting from a front-facing camera perspective, making those short video clips where you're talking about where you are or what you're interested in, and your face fills up the entire screen.

Perspective Me Face Short Talking

I'm always striving to lose weight. And it's not a matter of wanting to be a size 3 again - I brought out my leotards, and a friend thought they were doll clothes. Being heavy isn't good for you. How long can your heart take the strain? So, I never give up, but it's hard.

Good Friend Never Give Up Heart Lose

I moved to Switzerland when I was 8, and during our breaks, we'd go to snowboard, and he'd take me to the mountains; we'd take a train. It was kind of crazy, you know. When I think about it, I wake up at 4, take a train to the mountains, sleep in the train and then go snowboard, and then come back. It was quite a mission.

Mountains Sleep Me Crazy Wake Up

There is the real person I am, and there is the stage persona.

I Am Person Real Stage Persona Am

We are having trouble finding teachers to teach STEM. We also need to make sure schools have the resources. Some communities have multiple computers for each student in their schools. Other schools don't have textbooks, let alone computers.

Alone Computers Finding Student Need

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