Ernest Rutherford (1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson) Quotes
I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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Make yourself comfortable in everything you do.
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I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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Half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm funny-looking and ugly. The other half of my life, I've had people staring at me because they think I'm fascinating. Everything neutralises. It's more of a statement on society and how weird it is.
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I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.
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Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years – the mind anyway is subject to conditions.
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I don't watch a lot of TV.
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So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.
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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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I've been a free man.
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Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.
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For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.
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I think I have good judgment.
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Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.
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As a filmmaker, you're looking to reveal something. When other people relate to it, it makes an otherwise lonely world a little less lonely.
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Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.
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Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
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Art and design are not luxuries, nor somehow incompatible with science and engineering.
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I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.
