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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We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our Ancestors, our children, and the unborn.
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Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten paths; nor is there any better way to advance the proper practice of medicine than to give our minds to the discovery of the usual law of nature, by careful investigation of cases of rarer forms of disease.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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My interest in protein breakdown as a research problem began in l955 at about the time I joined the Biochemistry Department of Yale University. It was known that proteins break down intracellularly in the mature animal.
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It appears dubious whether a field theory can account for the atomistic structure of matter and radiation as well as of quantum phenomena.
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A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.
