Ernest Rutherford (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson) Quotes
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Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write - eight months for 'Seesaw Girl,' eight months for 'Shard,' three years for 'When My Name Was Keoko!' The publisher takes another year and a half to work on the book, so altogether each book can take up to three or four years to publish.
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Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold.
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Take your inspiration from wherever you find it, no matter how ridiculous.
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Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.
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Suffering without faith would be like love without hope.
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Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.
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I try to take care of myself as much as possible.
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Being aggressive is a lot less risky in the end. Are you going to eat your lunch, or have your lunch eaten for you.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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I'm a big tandem bike rider... I've had a tandem bike since I was 12, and I wanna be a competitive tandem bike rider one day.
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It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.
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I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.
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Money is to be respected one of the worst things you can do is handle another person's money without respect for how hard it was to earn.
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Nothing exists, save atoms and their combinations. There is no atom, which wouldn't periodically take part in life.
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An atom must be at least as complex as a grand piano.
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If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.
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My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.
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Now I know what the atom looks like.
