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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For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard to imagine how there could be stronger evidence for common ancestry of chimps and humans. ... Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives.
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After the leg break it was a very tough time. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't sometimes thought about stopping playing football.
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As long as you say I'm the guy who's real about it, I have no problem being the person who people look to to talk about race.
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On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.
