Ernest Rutherford (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson) Quotes
I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies.
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I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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You were born as the one you are.
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
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I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.
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I am not a fashionista, and I don't dress up. Usually if I'm at home, where I am now, I'm wearing a robe.
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Government subsidies can be critically analyzed according to a simple principle: You are smarter than the government, so when the government pays you to do something you wouldn't do on your own, it is almost always paying you to do something stupid.
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You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
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Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
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Ask yourself why a red carpet is red. It could be any colour.
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I'm one of the best players in the world. I think I can be proud about this.
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We never really write 'love' love songs. There's always something twisted about them. But as far as love songs, women just became way more important to us after we turned 21, as a band in general. Kind of broke up our boyhood solidarity as we started branching out into babes.
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There isn't a comedian in the world that hasn't bombed.
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On retirement savings: Gone today, here tomorrow.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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We call metaphysics the Science of Life, because to know pure metaphysics is to renew the life and make death and accident impossible.
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The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.
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I have to keep going, as there are always people on my track. I have to publish my present work as rapidly as possible in order to keep in the race. The best sprinters in this road of investigation are Becquerel and the Curies.
