Ernest Rutherford (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson) Quotes
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
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Dick Durbin's a worthy opponent on any debate. He's very intelligent, quick. Knows his facts and puts them forward well.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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It is tact that is golden, not silence.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.
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As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
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You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
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You can't take yourself too seriously.
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I play my enemies like a game of chess
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Spread the sickness, infect the world.
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I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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There are also fundamental issues related to what the current leader, President [Barack] Obama, said. I am referring to his idea about American exceptionalism. I am skeptical about this idea.
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Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.
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They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes.
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Genius is eternal patience.
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If you live on an atoll and you get a warning by radio that a big wave is coming and everyone is told to move to higher ground, where are you supposed to go on these islands? There is none. The highest ground is four-meters (around 13 feet) above sea level, meaning you'd be safer in a coconut tree. How, though, are you supposed to get your grandfather, grandmother and grandchildren up there?
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A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.
