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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I will say that I don't expect anybody to do anything that makes them feel uncomfortable. Or makes them feel like they're putting themselves in a bad position with their job.
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The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.
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The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory but simply failed to ask the right questions.
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A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.
