Enrico Fermi Quotes
Although the problem of transmuting chemical elements into each other is much older than a satisfactory definition of the very concept of chemical element, it is well known that the first and most important step towards its solution was made only nineteen years ago by the late Lord Rutherford, who started the method of the nuclear bombardments.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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I write for young people because I like them and because I think they are important. Children's books can be mind-stretchers and imagination-ticklers and builders of good taste in a way that adult books cannot, because young people usually come to books with more open minds. It's exciting to be able to contribute to that in a small way.
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Although I don't live there anymore, Scotland is a great place for the people coming over to visit and to tour around the Highlands, because it is a very magical place.
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Go on stage and stomp my foot on stage and play my guitar and sing my guts out because I love to entertain people. That's what makes me happy.
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I remember once when I was working on a magazine, and one of the male editors was going on a field trip with one of his sons. The office was full of, 'He's such a good dad,' whereas I came in late from a doctor's appointment for one of my children and was asked, 'Where were you? You'll need to make up the time.'
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love is a sharing of a mutual delusion.
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Although the problem of transmuting chemical elements into each other is much older than a satisfactory definition of the very concept of chemical element, it is well known that the first and most important step towards its solution was made only nineteen years ago by the late Lord Rutherford, who started the method of the nuclear bombardments.
